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H.
CON. RES. 390
IN
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr.
Schaffer (and Reps. Lantos, Pelosi, Berman, Crowley, Sherman,
Bliley, Andrews, Wynn, Chabot, Deutsch, Diaz-Balart, Doolittle,
McNulty, Wexler, Brown (OH), Gonzalez, Jefferson, Rohrabacher,
Payne, Tancredo, Lowey, Berkley, Hefley, Porter, Martinez,
Ros-Lehtinen, Pallone, Meek, Underwood, Bilirakis, Crane,
E. B. Johnson, Gibbons, Talent, Green, Goodling, Sessions,
Souder, McInnis, DeGette) submitted the following concurrent
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International
Relations
CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION
Expressing
the sense of the Congress regarding Taiwan’s participation
in the United Nations.
Whereas
Taiwan has dramatically improved its record on human rights
and routinely holds free and
fair elections in a multiparty system, as evidenced most
recently by Taiwan’s second democratic presidential election
of March 18, 2000, in which Mr. Chen Shui-bian was elected
as president;
Whereas
the 23,000,000 people on Taiwan are not represented in
the United Nations and their human rights as citizens
of the world are therefore severely abridged;
Whereas
Taiwan has in recent years repeatedly expressed its strong
desire to participate in the United Nations;
Whereas Taiwan has much to contribute to the work and funding
of the United Nations;
Whereas
the world community has reacted positively to Taiwan's
desire for international participation, as shown by Taiwan's
membership in the Asian Development Bank, Taiwan’s admission
to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group as a full
member, and Taiwan’s accession as an observer to the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade;
Whereas
the United States has supported Taiwan's participation
in these bodies and, in the Taiwan Policy Review of September
1994, declared an intention of a stronger and more active
policy of support for Taiwan’s participation in appropriate
international organizations;
Whereas
Public Law 106–137 required the Secretary of State to
submit a report to the Congress on administration efforts
to support Taiwan’s participation in international organizations,
in particular the World Health Organization; and
Whereas
in such report the Secretary of State failed to endorse
Taiwanese participation in international organizations
and thereby did not follow the spirit of the 1994 Taiwan
Policy Review: Now, therefore be it
Resolved
by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),
That it is the sense of the Congress that—
(1)
Taiwan and its 23,000,000 people deserve appropriate meaningful
participation in the United Nations and other international
organizations such as the World Health Organization; and
(2)
the United States should fulfill the commitment it made
in the 1994 Taiwan Policy Review to more actively support
Taiwan’s membership in appropriate international organizations.
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