[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 26, 1994)]
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      REMOVAL OF INJUNCTION OF SECRECY--TREATY DOCUMENT NO. 103-22

  Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, as in executive session, I ask unanimous 
consent that the injunction of secrecy be removed from Two Protocols 
Amending the OAS Charter (Treaty Document No. 103-22), transmitted to 
the Senate by the President today; and ask that the protocols be 
considered as having been read the first time; that they be referred, 
with accompanying papers, to the Committee on Foreign Relations and 
ordered to be printed; and that the President's message be printed in 
the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The message of the President is as follows:
To the Senate of the United States:
  With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to 
ratification, I transmit herewith the ``Protocol of Washington'' 
adopted on December 14, 1992, by the Sixteenth Special Session of the 
General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) and 
signed by the United States on January 23, 1993, and the ``Protocol of 
Managua'' adopted by the Nineteenth Special Session of the OAS General 
Assembly on June 10, 1993, and signed that day by the United States. I 
also transmit for the information of the Senate, the report of the 
Department of State with respect to the two Protocols, both of which 
comprise amendments to the Charter of the Organization of American 
States.
  The Charter amendments of the ``Protocol of Washington;'' (a) 
incorporate a procedure for suspending the right of a Member State to 
participate in OAS policy bodies when its democratically constituted 
government has been overthrown by force; and (b) address the situation 
of extreme poverty in the hemisphere.
  The Charter amendments of the ``Protocol of Managua'' are aimed at 
rendering the delivery of OAS provided technical cooperation more 
effective and thereby giving practical effect to the Organization's 
efforts to eliminate extreme poverty. The Charter amendments would 
create a single Inter-American Council for Integral Development to 
replace the existing Inter-American Economic and Social Council (CIES) 
and the Inter-American Council for Education, Science and Culture 
(CIECC).
  Early and favorable action by the Senate on the ``Protocol of 
Washington'' and the ``Protocol of Managua'' would send a strong signal 
to other OAS Member States that the United States is firmly committed 
to strengthening the multilateral and institutional means for 
protecting and promoting democracy in the region and to addressing the 
problems of extreme poverty and integral development.
  I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to 
the Protocols and give its advice and consent to ratification of the 
Protocols at an early date.
                                                  William J. Clinton.  
  The White House, January 26, 1994.

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