IV
109th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. CON. RES. 450
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 19, 2006
Mr. Kucinich (for himself, Mr. Rangel, Mr. Abercrombie, Ms. Slaughter, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Cleaver, Ms. Lee, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Filner, Mr. Stark, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Honda, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Waters, Mr. Moran of Virginia, Mr. Rush, Ms. Baldwin, Ms. Kilpatrick of Michigan, Ms. McCollum of Minnesota, Ms. Solis, and Mr. Meeks of New York) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Calling upon the President to appeal to all sides in the current crisis in the Middle East for an immediate cessation of violence and to commit United States diplomats to multi-party negotiations with no preconditions.
That Congress—
calls upon the President to—
appeal to all sides in the current crisis in the Middle East for an immediate cessation of violence;
commit United States diplomats to multi-party negotiations with no preconditions; and
send a high-level diplomatic mission to the region to facilitate such multi-party negotiations;
urges such multi-party negotiations to begin as soon as possible, including delegations from the governments of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt; and
supports an international peacekeeping mission to southern Lebanon to prevent cross-border skirmishes during such multi-party negotiations.