    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1999, Book I)]
    [February 9, 1999]
    [Page 184]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Letter to Congressional Leaders on the Memorandum of Understanding
    Relating to the Soviet Union-United States Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
    February 9, 1999

    Dear Mr. Chairman:
        In accordance with section 625 of the Departments of Commerce,
    Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations
    Act, 1999 (as contained in the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency
    Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, Public Law 105-277) (the
    ``Act''), I hereby certify and affirm that the United States Government
    is not implementing the Memorandum of Understanding Relating to the
    Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet
    Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems
    of May 26, 1972 (the ``MOU''), entered into in New York on September 26,
    1997.
        Attached is a report to the Congress on the MOU submitted pursuant
    to section 625 of the Act.
            Sincerely,

                                                          William J. Clinton

    Note: Identical letters were sent to Ted Stevens, chairman, Senate
    Committee on Appropriations, and C.W. Bill Young, chairman, House
    Committee on Appropriations. This letter was released by the Office of
    the Press Secretary on February 10.