[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 25158]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



        REMOVAL OF INJUNCTION OF SECRECY--TREATY DOCUMENT 106-14

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, as in executive session, I ask 
unanimous consent that the Injunction of Secrecy be removed from the 
following convention transmitted to the Senate on October 13, 1999 by 
the President of the United States:
  Food Aid Convention 1999, Treaty Document 106-14.
  I further ask that the convention be considered as having been read 
the first time; that it 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 Food Aid Convention 1999, which 
was open for signature at the United Nations Headquarters, New York, 
from May 1 through June 30, 1999. The Convention was signed by the 
United States June 16, 1999. I transmit also, for the information of 
the Senate, the report of the Department of State with respect to the 
Convention.
  The Food Aid Convention 1999 replaces the Food Aid Convention 1995. 
Donor members continue to make minimum annual commitments that can be 
expressed either in the quantity or, under the new Convention, the 
value of the food aid they will provide to developing countries.
  As the United States has done in the past, it is participating 
provisionally in the Food Aid Committee. The Committee granted the 
United States (and other countries) a 1-year extension of time, until 
June 30, 2000, in which to deposit its instrument of ratification.
  It is my hope that the Senate will give prompt and favorable 
consideration to this Convention, and give its advice and consent to 
ratification by the United States at the earliest possible date.
                                                  William J. Clinton.  
  The White House, October 13, 1999.

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