[House Document 106-213]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]





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   PROPOSED AGREEMENT TO EXTEND NUCLEAR AGREEMENT WITH THE PEOPLE'S 
                        REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH

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                                MESSAGE

                                  FROM

                   THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              TRANSMITTING

     THE TEXT OF A PROPOSED AGREEMENT TO EXTEND THE AGREEMENT FOR 
COOPERATION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND 
THE REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH CONCERNING PEACEFUL USES OF NUCLEAR ENERGY, 
                     PURSUANT TO 42 U.S.C. 2153(b)




   March 21, 2000.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the 
     Committee on International Relations and ordered to be printed

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                    U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
79-011                     WASHINGTON : 2000       





To the Congress of the United States:
    I am pleased to transmit to the Congress, pursuant to 
sections 123 b. and 123 d. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 
amended (42 U.S.C. 2153 (b), (d)) (the Act), the text of a 
proposed Agreement Between the United States of America and the 
People's Republic of Bangladesh to extend the Agreement for 
Cooperation Between the United States of America and the 
People's Republic of Bangladesh Concerning Peaceful Uses of 
Nuclear Energy signed at Dhaka, September 17, 1981 (the 
Agreement for Cooperation).
    The proposed Agreement to extend the Agreement for 
Cooperation (the ``Extension Agreement'') was originally 
approved and its execution authorized by President Bush based 
on his written determination that the performance of the 
Agreement for Cooperation for an additional period of 20 years 
would promote, and would not constitute an unreasonable risk 
to, the common defense and security. A copy of President Bush's 
written approval, authorization, and determination is enclosed. 
Also enclosed is a copy of the unclassified Nuclear 
Proliferation Assessment Statement (NPAS) prepared at that time 
by the Director, United States Arms Control and Disarmament 
Agency.
    The proposed Extension Agreement was effected by an 
exchange of diplomatic notes at Dhaka on January 5, 1993, and 
February 6, 1993. The terms of the Extension Agreement 
condition its entry into force on each State notifying the 
other of the completion of its respective legal requirements 
for entry into force. However, before the proposed Extension 
Agreement could be submitted to the Congress in 1993 for review 
pursuant to section 123 of the Act, the Government of 
Bangladesh asked to consult with the United States regarding a 
possible modification of the term of extension. These 
discussions proved to be very protracted, but both Governments 
have now agreed that their original intention to extend the 
Agreement for Cooperation for an additional period of 20 years 
from the date of the original Agreement's expiration (i.e., to 
extend it until June 24, 2012) should stand, and that the 
Extension Agreement should be brought into force as soon as 
each Party has notified the other in writing that it has 
completed its legal requirements for doing so.
    Section 123 of the Act, as amended by Title XII of the 
Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (Public 
Law 105-277) now also provides that each Nuclear Proliferation 
Assessment Statement prepared pursuant to the Act shall be 
accompanied by a classified annex prepared by the Secretary of 
State in consultation with the Director of Central 
Intelligence, summarizing relevant classified information. The 
Secretary of State is submitting to the Congress under separate 
cover such a classified annex. It contains, inter alia, the 
Secretary of State's reaffirmation of the conclusions reached 
in the original unclassified Nuclear Proliferation Assessment 
Statement (a) that continued implementation of the Agreement 
for Cooperation is consistent with all requirements of the Act, 
and (b) that the safeguards and other control mechanisms and 
the peaceful-use assurances contained in the Agreement for 
Cooperation are adequate to ensure that any assistance 
furnished under it will not be used to further any military or 
nuclear explosive purpose.
    I am pleased to reconfirm President Bush's approval of the 
Extension Agreement and authorization of its execution and 
implementation. Bangladesh is a party to the Treaty on the Non-
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and is fully in 
compliance with its nuclear nonproliferation commitments under 
that Treaty. In my judgment, continued performance of the 
Agreement for Cooperation between the United States of America 
and the People's Republic of Bangladesh Concerning Peaceful 
Uses of Nuclear Energy will promote, and not constitute an 
unreasonable risk to, the common defense and security. Apart 
from the proposed extension, the Agreement for Cooperation will 
remain in all other respects the same as that which was 
favorably reviewed by the Congress in 1982. The Department of 
State, the Department of Energy, and the Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission have reconfirmed their favorable views regarding the 
original NPAS as well as the conclusions contained herein.
    This transmission shall constitute a submittal for purposes 
of both sections 123 b. and 123 d. of the Act. My 
Administration is prepared to begin immediately the 
consultations with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and 
the House International Relations Committee as provided in 
section 123 b. Upon completion of the period of 30 days of 
continuous session provided for in section 123 b., the period 
of 60 days of continuous session provided for in section 123 d. 
shall commence.

                                                William J. Clinton.
    The White House, March 20, 2000.



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