[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
[March 20, 1991]
[Page 294]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]



Message to the Congress Transmitting the Annual Report of the United 
States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
March 20, 1991

To the Congress of the United States:
    I am pleased to transmit the United States Arms Control and 
Disarmament Agency annual report for 1990. This report deserves your 
close review.
    The year 1990 witnessed the signing of the multilateral Conventional 
Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, which, when satisfactorily 
implemented, will be a major step in reducing the numbers of deployed 
weapons in the area bounded by the Ural Mountains and the Atlantic 
Ocean. The U.S.-U.S.S.R. Chemical Weapons Destruction Agreement was also 
signed. Significantly, both the Treaty Between the United States and the 
Soviet Union on Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests (TTBT) and the Treaty 
on Underground Nuclear Explosions for Peaceful Purposes (PNET) entered 
into force. Substantial progress was made during 1990 in the Strategic 
Arms Reductions Talks (START) and in our efforts to curb the worldwide 
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
    The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency's 1990 annual report 
provides details of these and other developments, including the conduct 
of arms control negotiations, the coordination of treaty implementation 
procedures, and other activities conducted pursuant to the Arms Control 
and Disarmament Act.
    As the report illustrates, the dramatic changes in Eastern Europe 
and in U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations have not diminished the importance of 
effective and verifiable arms control agreements.

                                                             George Bush

The White House,
March 20, 1991.