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116th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. CON. RES. 32
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 7, 2020Mr. Markey (for himself, Ms. Warren, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Reed, Mr. Booker, Mr. Wyden, and Ms. Klobuchar) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of Congress that attacks on cultural sites are war crimes.
Whereas attacking cultural sites is illegal under the Geneva Conventions and the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict; and
Whereas, on January 6, 2020, Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper expressed that the United States would not target Iranian cultural sites, as the United States follow[s] the laws of armed conflict: Now, therefore, be it
That attacks on cultural sites are war crimes.