    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1996, Book I)]
    [April 21, 1996]
    [Page 617]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    [[Page 617]]

    Russia-U.S. Joint Statement on the Highly Enriched Uranium Agreement:
    Transparency Measures
    April 21, 1996

        The United States and Russia have agreed on transparency measures
    that provide assurances that the sides are fulfilling the obligations
    undertaken under the HEU Agreement to transform ``megatons into
    megawatts.''
        The transparency measures that have been developed are the
    culmination of two years of negotiations between official U.S. and
    Russian delegations and are evidence that irreversible nuclear
    disarmament is achievable if we work together. By blending-down HEU
    derived from nuclear weapons to low-enriched uranium that can only be
    used as fuel in commercial nuclear power reactors, we ensure that this
    material can never again be used in nuclear weapons.

    Note: An original was not available for verification of the content of
    this joint statement.