[House Document 105-83]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



105th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - -  House Document 105-83


 
DOCUMENT AGREED AMONG THE STATES PARTIES TO THE TREATY ON CONVENTIONAL 
              ARMED FORCES IN EUROPE OF NOVEMBER 19, 1990

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                                MESSAGE

                                  from

                   THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

 CERTIFICATION WITH RESPECT TO THE RESOLUTION OF ADVICE AND CONSENT TO 
  RATIFICATION ON THE DOCUMENT AGREED AMONG THE STATES PARTIES TO THE 
  TREATY ON CONVENTIONAL ARMED FORCES IN EUROPE OF NOVEMBER 19, 1990 
   (``THE CFE FLANK DOCUMENT''), ADOPTED BY THE SENATE OF THE UNITED 
                         STATES ON MAY 14, 1997




    May 15, 1997.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the 
     Committee on International Relations and ordered to be printed
To the Congress of the United States:
    In accordance with the resolution of advice and consent to 
ratification on the Document Agreed Among the States Parties to 
the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of November 
19, 1990 (``The CFE Flank Document''), adopted by the Senate of 
the United States on May 14, 1997, I hereby certify that:
    In connection with Condition (2), Violations of State 
Sovereignty, the United States and the governments of Belgium, 
Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, 
Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey 
and the United Kingdom have issued a joint statement affirming 
that (i) the CFE Flank Document does not give any State Party 
the right to station (under Article IV, paragraph 5 of the 
Treaty) or temporarily deploy (under Article V, paragraphs 1 
(B) and (C) of the Treaty) conventional arms and equipment 
limited by the Treaty on the territory of other States Parties 
to the Treaty without the freely expressed consent of the 
receiving State Party; (ii) the CFE Flank Document does not 
alter or abridge the right of any State Party under the Treaty 
to utilize fully its declared maximum levels for conventional 
armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty notified pursuant 
to Article VII of the Treaty; and (iii) the CFE Flank Document 
does not alter in any way the requirement for the freely 
expressed consent of all States Parties concerned in the 
exercise of any reallocations envisioned under Article IV, 
paragraph 3 of the CFE Flank Document.
    In connection with Condition (6), Application and 
Effectiveness of Senate Advice and Consent, in the course of 
diplomatic negotiations to secure accession to, or ratification 
of, the CFE Flank Document by any other State Party, the United 
States will vigorously reject any effort by a State Party to 
(i) modify, amend, or alter a United States right or obligation 
under the Treaty or the CFE Flank Document, unless such 
modification, amendment, or alteration is solely an extension 
of the period of provisional application of the CFE Flank 
Document or a minor administrative or technical nature; (ii) 
secure the adoption of a new United States obligation under, or 
in relation to, the CFE Treaty or the CFE Flank Document, 
unless such obligation is solely of a minor administrative or 
technical nature; or (iii) secure the provision of assurances, 
or endorsement of a course of action or a diplomatic position, 
inconsistent with the principles and policies established under 
conditions (1), (2), and (3) of the resolution of advice and 
consent to ratification of the CFE Flank Document.
    In connection with Condition (7), Modifications of the CFE 
Flank Zone, any subsequent agreement to modify, revise, amend 
or alter the boundaries of the CFE flank zone, as delineated by 
the map entitled ``Revised CFE Flank Zone'' submitted to the 
Senate on April 7, 1997, shall require the submission of such 
agreement to the Senate for its advice and consent to 
ratification, if such changes are not solely of a minor 
administrative or technical nature.
    In connection with Condition (9), Senate Prerogatives on 
Multilateralization of the ABM Treaty, I will submit to the 
Senate for advice and consent to ratification any international 
agreement (i) that would add one or more countries as States 
Parties to the ABM Treaty, or otherwise convert the ABM Treaty 
from a bilateral treaty to a multilateral treaty; or (ii) that 
would change the geographic scope or coverage of the ABM 
Treaty, or otherwise modify the meaning of the term ``national 
territory'' as used in Article VI and Article IX of the ABM 
Treaty.
    In connection with Condition (11), Temporary Deployments, 
the United States has informed all other States Parties to the 
Treaty that the United States (A) will continue to interpret 
the term ``temporary deployment'', as used in the Treaty, to 
mean a deployment of severely limited duration measured in days 
or weeks or, at most, several months, but not years; (B) will 
pursue measures designed to ensure that any State Party seeking 
to utilize the temporary deployments provision of the Treaty 
will be required to furnish the Joint Consultative Group 
established by the Treaty with a statement of the purpose and 
intended duration of the deployment, together with a 
description of the object of verification and the location of 
origin and destination of the relevant conventional armaments 
and equipment limited by the Treaty; and (C) will vigorously 
reject any effort by a State Party to use the right of 
temporary deployment under the Treaty (i) to justify military 
deployments on a permanent basis; or (ii) to justify military 
deployments without the full and complete agreement of the 
State Party upon whose territory the armed forces or military 
equipment of another State Party are to be deployed.

                                                William J. Clinton.
    The White House, May 14, 1997.

                                
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