    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
    [June 21, 1991]
    [Page 708]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

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    Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting the Annual Report on
    International Activities in Science and Technology
    June 21, 1991

    Dear Mr. Speaker:  (Dear Mr. Chairman:)
        In accordance with Title V of the Foreign Relations Act of Fiscal
    1979, as amended (Public Law 95-426; 22 U.S.C. 2656c(b)), I am
    transmitting the annual report on international activities in science
    and technology for fiscal year 1990.
        This year's report highlights the unique role of science and
    technology in foreign policy by focusing on six topical areas and
    examining how science and technology interface with foreign policy in
    those fields. It further explores this relationship by discussing our
    cooperation in these six areas with 20 countries plus two multilateral
    organizations, the European Community and NATO. This new format should
    be more effective in providing insight into the interaction between
    science and technology and foreign policy in the United States.
        Fiscal year 1990 was a year of U.S. leadership in global
    environmental issues, highlighted by the White House Conference on the
    Science and Economics of Global Change. The year also saw continued U.S.
    support for international projects in space, human genetics, high energy
    physics, materials science, and earthquake engineering. In the human
    health area, prominent U.S. research collaboration with foreign
    countries continued in the areas of acquired immune deficiency syndrome
    (AIDS), vaccines against childhood diseases, prevention and control of
    blindness, cardiovascular disease, mental illness, and health problems
    of aging. Today science and technology figure prominently in the reform
    programs of not only the countries of central and eastern Europe, but in
    major developing countries as well. The long-term outlook is for further
    increase in the role of science and technology in foreign policy.
        Sincerely,

                                                                 George Bush

                        Note: Identical letters were sent to Thomas S.
                            Foley, Speaker of the House of Representatives;
                            Claiborne Pell, chairman of the Senate Foreign
                            Relations Committee; and John Glenn, chairman of
                            the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.