    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 17 (Monday, April 29, 1996)]
    [Pages 703-704]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Russia-U.S. Joint Statement on the Highly Enriched Uranium Agreement

    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

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    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.