Pakistan Proliferation Accountability Act of 2005 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the U.S. Government has an interest in knowing the full extent of the illegal international nuclear proliferation network established and operated by the Pakistani nuclear scientist, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan; and (2) Dr. Khan should give the U.S. Government a full accounting of such network.
Prohibits U.S. military assistance to Pakistan until the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that: (1) the Government of Pakistan has provided the United States with unrestricted opportunities to interview Dr. Khan, and has complied with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) requests regarding such network; and (2) the U.S. Government has determined such network's full scope of activities and participants, determined the nature of its connection to al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, and, in conjunction with the IAEA, has confirmed its dismantling.
[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1553 Introduced in House (IH)]
109th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1553
To prohibit the provision of United States military assistance and the
sale, transfer, or licensing of United States military equipment or
technology to Pakistan.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 12, 2005
Mr. Ackerman (for himself, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Crowley,
Ms. Watson, and Mr. Menendez) introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on International Relations
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A BILL
To prohibit the provision of United States military assistance and the
sale, transfer, or licensing of United States military equipment or
technology to Pakistan.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Pakistan Proliferation
Accountability Act of 2005''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, former director of the A.Q. Khan
Research Laboratory in Pakistan and Special Adviser to the
Prime Minister on the Strategic Programme with the status of a
federal minister, established and operated an illegal
international network which sold nuclear weapons and related
technologies to a variety of countries.
(2) The illegal international nuclear proliferation network
established by Dr. Khan provided North Korea with complete
uranium enrichment centrifuges and designs and a list of
components necessary to manufacture additional uranium
enrichment centrifuges.
(3) Documents provided by the Government of Libya to the
Government of the United States and the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) indicate that the illegal international
nuclear proliferation network established by Dr. Khan provided
Libya with designs for a nuclear weapon, as well as for uranium
enrichment centrifuges.
(4) In March 2005, the Government of Pakistan acknowledged
that the illegal international nuclear proliferation network
established by Dr. Khan provided uranium enrichment centrifuges
to Iran.
(5) The Government of the United States still does not know
the entire extent of the activities of the illegal
international nuclear proliferation network established by Dr.
Khan and the Government of Pakistan has not provided any
opportunity for the United States Government to interview Dr.
Khan directly.
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) the Government of the United States has an interest in
knowing the full extent of the illegal international nuclear
proliferation network established and operated by the Pakistani
nuclear scientist, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, which sold nuclear
weapons and related technologies to a variety of countries; and
(2) in order to ensure that the illegal international
nuclear proliferation network established by Dr. Khan has been
dismantled, Dr. Khan should give a full accounting of the
activities and participants of the network to the United States
Government.
SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON UNITED STATES MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO PAKISTAN.
(a) Prohibition.--No United States military assistance may be
provided to Pakistan and no military equipment or technology may be
sold, transferred, or licensed for sale to Pakistan pursuant to the
authorities contained in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.
2151 et seq.) or any other Act unless the President first certifies to
the appropriate congressional committees that--
(1) the Government of Pakistan has provided the Government
of the United States with unrestricted opportunities to
interview the Pakistani nuclear scientist, Dr. Abdul Qadeer
Khan, regarding the illegal international nuclear proliferation
network established and operated by Dr. Khan;
(2) the Government of Pakistan has complied with requests
for assistance from the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) regarding the illegal international nuclear
proliferation network, including by providing requested
documents, materials, equipment, and access to individuals; and
(3) the Government of the United States--
(A) has determined the full scope of the activities
and participants of the illegal international nuclear
proliferation network;
(B) has determined the nature and extent of the
illegal international nuclear proliferation network's
connection to al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden; and
(C) in conjunction with the International Atomic
Energy Agency, has confirmed that the illegal
international nuclear proliferation network has been
completely dismantled.
(b) Inapplicability of Certain Provisions.--The prohibition
contained in subsection (a) does not apply to any assistance or
transfer for the purposes of any of the provisions of law specified in
subparagraphs (A) through (D) of section 620E(e)(2) of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2375(e)(2)).
(c) Definition.--In this section, the term ``appropriate
congressional committees'' means--
(1) the Committee on International Relations and the
Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives;
and
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on
Appropriations of the Senate.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
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