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 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—DEC. 20, 1979

93 STAT. 1435

(4) to work for internationaly supervised elections that would allow the Khmer people to choose freely their leadership; (5) to promote the establishment of a neutral, nonalined Cambodia that would present no threat to any other nation; and (6) to devise means of meeting the urgent needs of the IChmer people for humanitarian relief and reconstruction. Agreed to December 19, 1979.

THE LOCATION OF CHANCERIES AMENDMENT ACT OF 1979

J^ecja,im_ [S. Con. Res. 63]

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring). That the Congress disapproves of the action of the District of Columbia Council, described as follows: The Location of Chanceries Amendment Act of 1979, act 3-120, passed by the Council of the District of Columbia on October 9, 1979, signed by the Mayor on November 9, 1979, and transmitted to the Congress pursuant to section 602(c) of the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act of 1973, on November 19, 1979.

D.c. Council ^^tio"'. SSS'provar

DC. Code note prec. title 1.

Agreed to December 20, 1979.

BALTIC STATES—SELF-DETERMINATION AND CITIZENSHIP Whereas the United States since its inception has been committed to the principle of self-determination; and Whereas the United States as a member of the United Nations has pledged to uphold the provisions of the United Nations Charter and to take joint and separate action to promote universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion; and Whereas the United Nations and the United States delegation to the United Nations have consistently upheld the right of selfdetermination of people of those countries in Asia and Africa that are, or have been, under foreign political rule; Whereas the United States, as a signatory to the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, endorsed Principle VIII concerning equal rights and self-determination of peoples; and Whereas in 1940 the Soviet Union unilaterally and forcibly annexed the Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia), which were sovereign members of the League of Nations; and Whereas in 1954 the House of Representatives Select Committee to Investigate Communist Aggression concluded that the Baltic States "were forcibly occupied and illegally annexed by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" and that "the continued military and political occupations of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a cause of the dangerous world tensions which now beset mankind and therefore constitute a serious threat to the peace"; and Whereas the desire of the citizens of the Baltic States for national independence remains strong despite efforts by the Soviet Union to destroy the Baltic peoples as distinct cultural, geographical,

De^. 20, 1979

[H. Con. Res. 200]

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