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Whereas delegates from the People's Republic of China, 

 Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of Poland, 

 the Russian Federation, and the United States signed a 

 joint resolution at the Fifth Conference on the Conserva- 

 tion and Management of the Living Marine Resources of 

 the Central Bering Sea on August 14, 1992, which pro- 

 vided for a temporary suspension of all commercial fish- 

 ing in the Donut Hole during 1993 and 1994; 



Whereas these delegations met most recently in Tokyo in 

 June, 1993, to negotiate a long-term management agree- 

 ment for the Donut Hole and were not able to finalize 

 such an agreement; 



Whereas delegates from each of these nations have expressed 

 their consensus concerns for the long-term conservation 

 and management of the fishery resources of the Donut 

 Hole: Now, therefore, be it 



1 Resolved hy the House of Representatives (the Senate 



2 concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that — 



3 (1) the United States should take appropriate 



4 measures to conserve the resources of the Donut 



5 Hole; 



6 (2) the United States should continue its pur- 



7 suit of an international agreement, consistent with 



8 its rights as a coastal state, to ensure proper man- 



9 agement for future commercial viability of these nat- 



10 ural resources; 



11 (3) the United States, working closely with the 



12 Russian Federation should, in accordance with inter- 



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