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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. RES. 207 |
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| 5 | 5 | | Marking the 60th anniversary of the Polaris Sales Agreement between the |
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| 6 | 6 | | United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern |
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| 7 | 7 | | Ireland. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | MAY11, 2023 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mrs. F |
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| 11 | 11 | | ISCHER(for herself and Mr. KING) submitted the following resolution; |
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| 12 | 12 | | which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations |
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| 13 | 13 | | RESOLUTION |
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| 14 | 14 | | Marking the 60th anniversary of the Polaris Sales Agreement |
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| 15 | 15 | | between the United States and the United Kingdom of |
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| 16 | 16 | | Great Britain and Northern Ireland. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Whereas, on December 21, 1962, President John F. Kennedy |
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| 18 | 18 | | and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Mac- |
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| 19 | 19 | | millan met in Nassau, Bahamas, and issued a joint state- |
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| 20 | 20 | | ment (commonly referred to as the ‘‘Statement on Nu- |
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| 21 | 21 | | clear Defense Systems’’), agreeing that the United States |
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| 22 | 22 | | would make Polaris missiles available on a continuing |
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| 23 | 23 | | basis to the United Kingdom for use in submarines; |
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| 24 | 24 | | Whereas, on April 6, 1963, Secretary of State Dean Rusk |
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| 25 | 25 | | and Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the United States |
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| 26 | 26 | | David Ormsby-Gore signed the Polaris Sales Agreement, |
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| 27 | 27 | | reaffirming the Statement on Nuclear Defense Systems |
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| 30 | 30 | | •SRES 207 IS |
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| 31 | 31 | | and agreeing that the United States Government shall |
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| 32 | 32 | | provide and the Government of the United Kingdom shall |
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| 33 | 33 | | purchase from the United States Government Polaris |
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| 34 | 34 | | missiles, equipment, and supporting services; |
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| 35 | 35 | | Whereas the HMS Resolution launched the first Polaris mis- |
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| 36 | 36 | | sile of the United Kingdom on February 15, 1968, and, |
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| 37 | 37 | | in 1969, commenced the first strategic deterrent patrol |
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| 38 | 38 | | for the United Kingdom, initiating a continuous at-sea |
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| 39 | 39 | | deterrent posture for the United Kingdom that remains |
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| 40 | 40 | | in effect; |
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| 41 | 41 | | Whereas the Polaris Sales Agreement was amended to in- |
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| 42 | 42 | | clude the Trident II (D5) strategic weapon system on Oc- |
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| 43 | 43 | | tober 19, 1982, in Washington, DC, through an exchange |
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| 44 | 44 | | of notes between Secretary of State Jonathan Howe and |
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| 45 | 45 | | Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the United States Oliver |
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| 46 | 46 | | Wright; and |
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| 47 | 47 | | Whereas through an exchange of letters in 2008 between Sec- |
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| 48 | 48 | | retary of Defense the Honorable Robert Gates and Sec- |
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| 49 | 49 | | retary of State for Defence of the United Kingdom the |
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| 50 | 50 | | Right Honorable Desmond Browne and under the aus- |
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| 51 | 51 | | pices of the Polaris Sales Agreement, the United States |
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| 52 | 52 | | Government and the Government of the United Kingdom |
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| 53 | 53 | | agreed to continue cooperation to design a common mis- |
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| 54 | 54 | | sile compartment for the follow-on ballistic missile sub- |
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| 55 | 55 | | marines of each nation: Now, therefore, be it |
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| 56 | 56 | | Resolved, That the Senate— 1 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (1) marks the 60th anniversary of the Polaris 2 |
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| 58 | 58 | | Sales Agreement between the Government of the 3 |
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| 59 | 59 | | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ire-4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | •SRES 207 IS |
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| 63 | 63 | | land and the Government of the United States of 1 |
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| 64 | 64 | | America, done at Washington April 6, 1963; 2 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (2) congratulates the Royal Navy for stead-3 |
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| 66 | 66 | | fastly maintaining a Continuous At-Sea Deterrent; 4 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (3) recognizes the important contribution of the 5 |
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| 68 | 68 | | Continuous At-Sea Deterrent to the North Atlantic 6 |
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| 69 | 69 | | Treaty Organization; 7 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (4) reaffirms that the United Kingdom is a val-8 |
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| 71 | 71 | | ued and special ally of the United States; and 9 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (5) looks forward to continuing and strength-10 |
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| 73 | 73 | | ening the shared commitment of the United States 11 |
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| 74 | 74 | | and the United Kingdom to sustain submarine-based 12 |
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| 75 | 75 | | strategic deterrents well into the future. 13 |
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