[House Document 110-145]
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110th Congress, 2d Session - - - - - - - - - House Document 110-145
                                                                  

 
THE TERMINATION OF A PROPOSED AGREEMENT REGARDING COOPERATION WITH THE 
   GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION FOR PEACEFUL USES OF NUCLEAR 
                                 ENERGY

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                                MESSAGE

                                  from

                     THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

A DETERMINATION THAT THE PROPOSED AGREEMENT FOR COOPERATION BETWEEN THE 
 GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE 
  RUSSIAN FEDERATION FOR COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF PEACEFUL USES OF 
   NUCLEAR ENERGY, PRESIDENTIAL DECLARATION 2008-19, IS TERMINATED, 
 PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 123b. AND 123d. OF THE ATOMIC ENERGY ACT OF 1954




 September 10, 2008.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the 
         Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed
To the Congress of the United States:
    On May 13, 2008, I transmitted a message to the Congress 
transmitting the text of a proposed Agreement for Cooperation 
Between the Government of the United States of America and the 
Government of the Russian Federation for Cooperation in the 
Field of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy (the ``proposed 
Agreement''), pursuant to sections 123b. and 123d. of the 
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2153(b), (d)) 
(the ``Act'').
    In view of recent actions by the Government of the Russian 
Federation incompatible with peaceful relations with its 
sovereign and democratic neighbor Georgia, I have determined 
that the determination regarding the proposed Agreement in 
Presidential Determination 2008-19 is no longer effective. 
Accordingly, a statutory prerequisite for the proposed 
Agreement to become effective, as required by section 123b. of 
the Act, is no longer satisfied. If circumstances should permit 
future reconsideration of the proposed Agreement, a new 
determination will be made and the proposed Agreement will be 
submitted for congressional review pursuant to section 123 of 
the Act.

                                                    George W. Bush.
    The White House, September 8, 2008.