[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 5 (Tuesday, January 29, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H87]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   WAIVER CONCERNING CHINA--MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 
                      STATES (H. DOC. NO. 107-177)

  The SPEAKER laid before the House the following message from the 
President of the United States; which was read and referred to the 
Committee on International Relations and ordered to be printed:
To the Congress of the United States:
  Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 902 of the Foreign 
Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 (Public Law 
101-246) (the ``Act''), and as President of the United States, I hereby 
report to the Congress that it is in the national interest of the 
United States to terminate the suspensions under section 902 of the Act 
insofar as such suspensions pertain to the export of defense articles 
or defense services in support of efforts by the Government of Japan to 
destroy Japanese chemical weapons abandoned during World War II in the 
People's Republic of China. License requirements remain in place for 
these exports and require review and approval on a case-by-case basis 
by the United States Government.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, January 25, 2002.

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