Senate Resolution 9

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  1  1                SENATE RESOLUTION NO. ___
  1  2      BY  HOLVECK, BEALL, BLACK, BOLKCOM, CONNOLLY,
  1  3      COURTNEY, DEARDEN, DOTZLER, DVORSKY, FRAISE,
  1  4     GRONSTAL, HATCH, HORN, KIBBIE, KREIMAN, McCOY,
  1  5     QUIRMBACH, RAGAN, SENG, STEWART, and WARNSTADT
  1  6    A Resolution to honor former President Jimmy Carter for
  1  7 winning the Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2002.
  1  8    WHEREAS, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded
  1  9 the Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 to former President
  1 10 Jimmy Carter for his decades of untiring effort to
  1 11 find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to
  1 12 advance democracy and human rights, and to promote
  1 13 economic and social development; and
  1 14    WHEREAS, through his Carter Center, founded in
  1 15 1982, President Carter has traveled throughout the
  1 16 world mediating conflicts, monitoring elections,
  1 17 promoting human rights, building homes for the poor
  1 18 through the Habitat for Humanity organization, and
  1 19 providing health care and food to the world's poor;
  1 20 and
  1 21    WHEREAS, as the 39th President of the United
  1 22 States, Carter brokered the Camp David peace agreement
  1 23 of 1978 between Israel and Egypt, established full
  1 24 diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of
  1 25 China, and negotiated the SALT II nuclear limitation
  1 26 treaty with the Soviet Union; and
  1 27    WHEREAS, it is fitting and proper that the valiant
  1 28 efforts of former President Carter be recognized and
  1 29 honored; NOW THEREFORE,
  1 30    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the Senate
  2  1 recognizes the efforts of former President Jimmy
  2  2 Carter to promote peace, democracy, and human rights
  2  3 throughout the world.
  2  4    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That upon adoption, a copy
  2  5 of this Resolution be sent to former President Jimmy
  2  6 Carter.
  2  7 LSB 2058SS 80
  2  8 kk/cl/14