[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 21 (Monday, May 25, 1998)]
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[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Message to the Congress Certifying Cooperation of Poland, Hungary, and 
the Czech Republic to Conditions of Membership to the North Atlantic 
Treaty Organization

May 21, 1998

To the Congress of the United States:

    In accordance with the resolution of advice and consent to the 
ratification of the Protocols to the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 on 
the Accession of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, adopted by the 
Senate of the United States on April 30, 1998, I hereby certify to the 
Congress that, in connection with Condition (5), each of the governments 
of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic are fully cooperating with 
United States efforts to obtain the fullest possible accounting of 
captured and missing U.S. personnel from past military conflicts or Cold 
War incidents, to include (A) facilitating full access to relevant 
archival material, and (B) identifying individuals who may possess 
knowledge relative to captured and missing U.S. personnel, and 
encouraging such individuals to speak with United States Government 
officials.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
May 21, 1998.