A resolution designed to keep nuclear weapons and mass destructive missiles out of the Near East was introduced in the Senate today by Majority Whip Hubert Humphrey, of Minnesota, Sen. Ernest Gruening, Alaska Democrat, and Senator Philip A. Hart, Michigan Democrat.
The resolution voiced the “sense of the Senate” that President Kennedy use his good offices with the states of the Near East to negotiate, either directly or through the United Nations, an agreement that nuclear weapons and mass destructive missiles will neither be produced nor introduced in the area.
The President would also be asked to try to institute an international policing system to enforce such agreements. The resolution also asked the President to reaffirm existing boundaries in accordance with the 1950 Tripartite Declaration and to seek an end to regional recriminations and incitements to violence.
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