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SRES 204 IS

Expressing the sense of the Senate that the United States should pursue discussions at the upcoming Middle East Peace Conference regarding the Syrian connection to terrorism.

OCTOBER 24 (legislative day, SEPTEMBER 19), 1991

Mr. D'AMATO (for himself, Mr. DECONCINI, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. GORE, Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. PACKWOOD, Mr. ADAMS, Mr. MACK, Mr. DIXON, Mr. HELMS, Mr. SMITH, Mr. COHEN, Mr. MOYNIHAN, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. MCCAIN, Mr. LAUTENBERG, and Mr. LIEBERMAN) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

Expressing the sense of the Senate that the United States should pursue discussions at the upcoming Middle East Peace Conference regarding the Syrian connection to terrorism.

Whereas since December 1979 Syria has been determined to be a country supporting international terrorism under section 6(j) of the Export Administration Act of 1979;

Whereas Syria has been directly linked to the attempted bombing in 1986 of an El Al flight from London to Israel through its paid agent, Nezar Hindawi;

Whereas Syria has continued to sponsor the activities of Ahmed Jabril, a Syrian-born military officer and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, who has been strongly linked, along with his Syrian sponsors, with the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, resulting in the death of 270 people, 189 of whom were Americans;

Whereas Syria has supported and sponsored Abu Nidal, the man responsible for the simultaneous attacks on the Rome and Vienna airports in 1985, numerous assassinations of international officials as well as American citizens;

Whereas Syrian participation in the drug trade out of Lebanon provides up to 20 percentum of the hashish that enters the United States as well as 40 percentum of Lebanon's opiate production;

Whereas these activities provide Syria with massive profits, reportedly as high as $1,000,000,000 a year, thereby enhancing its ability to sponsor terrorism: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that--

(1) it should be the policy of the United States to pursue discussions regarding Syria and terrorism at the Middle East Peace Conference in Madrid, Spain, in October 1991;

(2) Syria should, in this regard, completely renounce all forms of terrorism;

(3) Syria should cease all support of terrorism including financial, military, and political aid to all terrorist groups; and

(4) Syria should close all terrorist training bases on Syrian territory and Syrian-controlled, Lebanese territory, particularly that of the Bekka Valley.

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