[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 109 (Tuesday, August 9, 1994)]
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      REMOVAL OF INJUNCTION OF SECRECY--TREATY DOCUMENT NO. 103-27

  Mr. MOYNIHAN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
injunction of secrecy be removed from the Convention on the 
Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources in the Central Bearing 
Sea, Treaty Document No. 103-27, transmitted to the Senate by the 
President today; and ask that the treaty be considered as having been 
read the first time; that it be referred, with accompanying papers, to 
the Committee on Foreign Relations and order 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 Convention on the Conservation 
and Management of Pollock Resources in the Central Bering Sea, with 
Annex, done at Washington on June 16, 1994. The Convention was signed 
on that date by the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, 
the Russian Federation, and the United States. Japan and the Republic 
of Poland, the other participating countries in the negotiation of the 
Convention, are expected to sign the Convention in the near future. I 
transmit also, for the information of the Senate, a report of the 
Secretary of State concerning the Convention.
  This Convention is a state-of-the-art fishing agreement that will aid 
in ensuring the long-term health of pollock stocks in the central 
Bering Sea on which the U.S. pollock industry in the Pacific Northwest 
in part depends. Its strong conservation and management measures will 
be backed up with effective enforcement provisions. The agreement will 
require that each vessel fishing for pollock in the central Bering Sea 
carry scientific observers and use real-time satellite position-fixing 
transmitters. All vessels of the Parties fishing in the central Bering 
Sea must consent to boarding and inspection by authorized officials of 
other States Parties for compliance with the provisions of the 
Convention.
  I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to 
the Convention and provide its advice and consent to ratification.
                                                  William J. Clinton.  
The White House, August 9, 1994.

  Mr. MOYNIHAN. Mr. President, I must confess, as a member of the 
Committee on Foreign Relations, to be unfamiliar with the injunction of 
secrecy--covenants openly arrived at, said the learned Senator from 
Oregon, one of the principles of the Fourteen Points. But we will let 
it pass, Mr. President.

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