S.Amdt. 4084

SA 4084. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the joint resolution S.J. Res. 54, to direct the removal of
United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen
that have not been

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authorized by Congress; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the end, add the following:

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON UNITED STATES-SAUDI ARABIA
CIVILIAN NUCLEAR COOPERATION.

(a) Findings.--Congress make the following findings:
(1) On May 21, 2009, the United States and the United Arab
Emirates signed a bilateral agreement pursuant to section 123
of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2153),
establishing cooperation on civilian nuclear programs in
which the United Arab Emirates agreed that it ``shall not
possess sensitive nuclear facilities within its territory or
otherwise engage in activities within its territory for, or
relating to, the enrichment or reprocessing of material, or
for the alternation in form or content (except by irradiation
or further irradiation or, if agreed by the Parties, post-
irradiation examination) of plutonium, uranium 233, high
enriched uranium, or irradiated source or special fissionable
material''.
(2) The civil nuclear cooperation agreement between the
United States and the United Arab Emirates further obligates
the United Arab Emirates to bring into force its Additional
Protocol to its IAEA Safeguards Agreement before the United
States licenses ``exports of nuclear material, equipment,
components, or technology'' pursuant to the agreement.
(3) This agreement became known as the first ``gold
standard'' civil nuclear agreement and was lauded as a step
toward establishing a precedent for strong nonproliferation
standards on the Arabian Peninsula.
(b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that
any United States-Saudi Arabia civilian nuclear cooperation
agreement under section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954
(42 U.S.C. 2153), commonly known as a ``123 Agreement'',
concluded in the future should prohibit the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia from enriching uranium or separating plutonium on
Saudi Arabian territory in keeping with the strongest
possible nonproliferation ``gold standard'' as well as
require the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to bring into force the
Additional Protocol with the International Atomic Energy
Agency.
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