    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1994, Book II)]
    [September 28, 1994]
    [Page 1654]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Joint Announcement on Environmental Protection in the Arctic
    September 28, 1994

        President William Clinton and President Boris Yeltsin announced at
    their summit meeting on September 27 and 28, 1994, that cooperation in
    the resolution of the problems of processing and storage of Russian
    liquid radioactive wastes in the North of Russia is considered by both
    sides as an important component of more effective protection for the
    environmental quality and natural resources of the Arctic.
        The Russian Federation and the United States of America confirm
    their readiness to cooperate in consistently preventing dumping of
    liquid radioactive wastes, in accordance with the London Convention, and
    to proceed to a solution of the problem of Arctic pollution from all
    sources. To this end, the Russian Federation and the United States of
    American agree to undertake immediately, in cooperation with other
    interested countries, a step-by-step expansion and upgrading of a
    treatment facility for liquid low-level radioactive waste in Murmansk.
    Both sides hope that a speedy implementation of this project, which is
    in the interests of all states of the region, will become the focal
    point of efforts to create the infrastructure for ecologically safe
    processing and storage of liquid low-level radioactive wastes in the
    North of Russia. At the same time, Russia intends to continue its
    present policy of voluntary commitment to the prohibition on dumping
    liquid radioactive wastes under the London Convention with a view to
    eventual formal adherence to the prohibition.

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