[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 248]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    REPORT OF THE NATIONAL INTEREST RELATIVE TO JAPAN AND CHEMICAL 
WEAPONS--MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT RECEIVED DURING THE ADJOURNMENT--PM 
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  Under the authority of the order of the Senate of January 3, 2001, 
the Secretary of the Senate, on January 25, 2002, during the 
adjournment of the Senate, received the following message from the 
President of the United States, together with accompanying paper; which 
was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

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 Bush.  
The White House, January 25, 2002.

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