A concurrent resolution condemning the treatment of American prisoners of war by the Government of North Vietnam and urging the President to initiate appropriate action for the purpose of insuring that American prisoners are accorded humane treatment.

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Declares that the Congress condemns the treatment of American prisoners of war by the Government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam. Urges the President to initiate through diplomatic, military, and any other available channels, such action as may be necessary to insure that the tenets of fair and humane treatment, as expressed in the Geneva Convention of 1949, are accorded to American servicemen held as prisoners of war in North and South Vietnam and especially to urge the Government of North Vietnam and its allies to: (1) identify prisoners whom they hold; (2) release seriously sick or injured prisoners; (3) permit impartial inspections of all prisoner-of-war facilities; and (4) permit the free exchange of mail between families and prisoners.

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  summary · EN · 3 January 1973

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