    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1994, Book II)]
    [September 14, 1994]
    [Page 1554]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Message to the Senate Transmitting the Ukraine-United States
    Taxation Convention and Protocol
    September 14, 1994

    To the Senate of the United States:

        I transmit herewith for Senate advice and consent to ratification
    the Convention Between the Government of the United States of America
    and the Government of Ukraine for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and
    the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income and
    Capital, with Protocol, signed at Washington on March 4, 1994. Also
    transmitted for the information of the Senate is the report of the
    Department of State with respect to the Convention.

        The Convention replaces, with respect to Ukraine, the 1973 income
    tax convention between the United States of America and the Union of
    Soviet Socialist Republics. It will modernize tax relations between the
    two countries and will facilitate greater private sector United States
    investment in Ukraine.

        I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration
    to the Convention and related Protocol and give its advice and consent
    to ratification.

                                                          William J. Clinton

    The White House,
    September 14, 1994.