SCONRES 115 · 99th Congress · International Affairs
A concurrent resolution expressing the opposition of the United States to the forcible resettlement and systematic oppression of the Ethiopian people.
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Introduced2
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House5
EnactedLatest: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.(1986-03-12)
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Urges the President with respect to the Ethiopian Government's resettlement program to consider: (1) prohibiting the importation of Ethiopian goods and services; (2) removing Ethiopia's generalized system of preferences and most-favored-nation trade status; (3) forbidding U.S. businesses from extending loans to or making investments in the Ethiopian Government; and (4) instructing U.S. representatives to international lending institutions to vote against furnishing assistance to Ethiopia. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) call upon the United Nations and other donors to monitor all resettlement efforts in Ethiopia to ensure that coercion is not used; (2) request the Ethiopian Government to place a moratorium on relocations that may cause suffering or death and on relocations of persons who are sympathetic to anti-Government rebels; (3) request that the Ethiopian Government commit sufficient resources to existing resettlement camps; (4) insist that international observers be given access to all resettlement camps; and (5) ensure that the United States continues to raise this issue in every appropriate international forum, including the United Nations…
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Cosponsors (11)
2 Democrats9 Republicans