IV
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. CON. RES. 228
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 4, 2007
Mr. Schiff (for himself and Mr. Shays) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of Congress with respect to countries that withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
That it is the sense of Congress that the President should direct the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations to use the vote, voice, and influence of the United States to urge the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter that—
requires any country that withdraws from
the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, done at Washington,
London and Moscow on July 1, 1968, and entered into force on March 5, 1970 (21
UST 483) (hereinafter in this resolution referred to as the
Treaty
), to be held responsible for any violations by the
country of the Treaty’s requirements that occurred before the country’s
withdrawal from the Treaty; and
prohibits any country that withdraws from the Treaty after the country is determined to be in noncompliance with any of the Treaty’s requirements, including any applicable safeguards agreements, from using or retaining any nuclear energy assets, including all items listed in the current version of the International Atomic Energy Agency trigger list, published in INFCIRC/254 parts 1 and 2, acquired from other parties to the Treaty while the country was a party to the Treaty.