[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Pages 11514-11515]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




REPORT TO CONGRESS CONCERNING THE EXTENSION OF WAIVER AUTHORITY FOR THE 
                       REPUBLIC OF BELARUS--PM 81

  The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the following message 
from the President of the United States, together with an accompanying 
report; which was referred to the Committee on Finance:

To the Congress of the United States:
  I hereby transmit the document referred to in subsection 402(d)(1) of 
the Trade Act of 1974 (the ``Act''), as

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amended, with respect to the continuation of a waiver of application of 
subsections (a) and (b) of section 402 of the Act to the Republic of 
Belarus. This document constitutes my recommendation to continue this 
waiver for a further 12-month period and includes my determination that 
continuation of the waiver currently in effect for Belarus will 
substantially promote the objectives of section 402 of the Act, and my 
reasons for such determination.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, June 3, 2004.

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