[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 2 (Monday, January 18, 1999)]
[Page 50]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Letter to Congressional Leaders Reporting a Certification Required by 
the Ratification Resolution of the Chemical Weapons Convention

January 13, 1999

Dear Mr. Speaker:  (Dear Mr. Chairman:)

    In accordance with the resolution of advice and consent to 
ratification of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, 
Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their 
Destruction, adopted by the Senate of the United States on April 24, 
1997, I hereby certify that:

      In connection with Condition (9), Protection of Advanced 
      Biotechnology, the legitimate commercial activities and interests 
      of chemical, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical firms in the United 
      States are not being significantly harmed by the limitations of 
      the Convention on access to, and production of, those chemicals 
      and toxins listed in Schedule 1 of the Annex on Chemicals.

    Sincerely,
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: Identical letters were sent to J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the 
House of Representatives, and Jesse Helms, chairman, Senate Committee on 
Foreign Relations. This letter was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on January 14.