[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.