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                                    SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 132

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1986 Regular Session

By Senators Guess, Stratton and Benitz

Read first time 1/24/86 and referred to Committee on Governmental Operations.

WHEREAS, Taiwan is of great strategic importance in the defense of East Asia and the Pacific; and

          WHEREAS, The people of Taiwan are and have been among the most trusted friends of the people of the United States; and

          WHEREAS, The commercial, cultural and other nongovernmental relations between the American people and Taiwan are now and have always been excellent and mutually beneficial; and

          WHEREAS, The people of Washington wish to conduct and carry out numerous economic and cultural programs, transactions and other relations with the people of Taiwan; and

          WHEREAS, The products of Washington's fields and forests are continually essential for maintaining the trade patterns which are developing between the United States and Taiwan; and

          WHEREAS, The Legislature has strong reason to believe that it is the will and pleasure of the people of this State that Taiwan be adopted as a sister state;

          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, By the Senate of the state of Washington, the House of Representatives concurring, That Taiwan is hereby adopted as Washington's sister state; and

          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Secretary of the Senate be directed to forward a copy of this Resolution to the President of the United States of America, to the President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, each member of Congress from the state of Washington, to the Chief Executive Officer of the Government of Taiwan, to the Speaker of the Provincial Legislature of Taiwan, and to the Governor of the State of Washington.