Congress: 109 · Status: active · Israel/Palestine classification: pro-Israel
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Sponsor: Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana (R-FL)
Recognizes the potential threat that sympathizers and financiers of Islamist terrorist organizations that operate in the Western Hemisphere pose to the United States, our allies, and interests. Acknowledges the cooperation of some Western Hemisphere governments to deny the use of their territory to Islamist terrorist organizations and calls on all governments to intensify such efforts. Encourages the President to direct the United States Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) to: (1) seek OAS support for the creation of a special task force of the Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism (CICTE) to assist in investigating and combating the proliferation of Islamist terrorist organizations in the Western Hemisphere; and (2) urge OAS countries to designate Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, al-Qaeda and other such groups as terrorist organizations.
This non-binding resolution calls on the U.S. government to work through the Organization of American States to combat Islamist terrorist organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean. It specifically urges the U.S. Representative to the OAS to push member countries to designate groups including Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and al-Qaeda as terrorist organizations, and to create a special task force to investigate their activities in the region.
The resolution seeks to formalize Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations at the inter-American level, which could affect diplomatic positioning and coordination on Middle East policy. It signals Congressional intent to expand the terrorism designations framework to include Palestinian armed groups across hemispheric forums.