Senate Joint Resolution
No. 35
CHAPTER 9
Relative to the Assyrian/Chaldean Life Line.
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Filed with
Secretary of State
March 11, 1992.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SJR 35, Deddeh.
Assyrian/Chaldean Life Line.
This measure would memorialize the President and the Congress of the United States to assist the Assyrian/Chaldean people through the United Nations and other international agencies.
Digest Key
WHEREAS, The Assyrian/Chaldean people have a long and distinguished history, going back more than two millennia; and
WHEREAS, The Assyrian/Chaldean people originated in the area of the Middle East generally considered the cradle of civilization, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; and
WHEREAS, Many Assyrian/Chaldean are now living as ethnic minorities scattered throughout the Middle East and in refugee camps in northern Iraq and surrounding countries; and
WHEREAS, There are as many as 70,000 Californians of Assyrian/Chaldean extraction, with approximately half of this number living in the San Francisco Bay area, 15,000 in the central valley, and a significant number in San Diego and Los Angeles; and
WHEREAS, There has been until recently no central organization that has as its sole purpose the provision of relief, assistance, and aid to the Assyrian/Chaldean people; and
WHEREAS, The Assyrian/Chaldean Life Line has been formed by patriotic Americans of Assyrian/Chaldean decent to provide urgently needed relief, assistance, and aid to the Assyrian/Chaldean people; and
WHEREAS, The Assyrian/Chaldean Life Line is a totally volunteer organization that accepts only private nongovernmental support; and
WHEREAS, The efforts of the Assyrian/Chaldean Life Line are in the finest tradition of human endeavor; and
WHEREAS, The California Legislature applauds and commends the efforts of the Assyrian/Chaldean Life Line in providing relief, assistance, and aid to the the Assyrian/Chaldean people; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and Assembly of the State of California, jointly, That the Legislature of the State of California respectfully memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States to use their best efforts through the United Nations and other international agencies to look into the conditions affecting the Assyrian/Chaldean people and to report their findings so that the appropriate relief and aid might be organized to assist this ancient people whose history, arts, and sciences have literally filled the museums of the world; and be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to each Senator and Representative from California in the Congress of the United States.