[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.