[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 14 (Monday, April 12, 1999)]
[Pages 620-621]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Letter to Congressional Leaders Reporting on a Condition of the 
Convention on Nuclear Safety

April 9, 1999

Dear __________:

    In accordance with Condition (1) of the resolution of advice and 
consent to ratification of the Convention on Nuclear Safety, adopted by 
the United States Senate on March 25, 1999, I hereby certify that the 
United States Government will not engage in any multilateral activity in 
the field of international nuclear regulation or nuclear safety that 
unnecessarily duplicates a multilateral activity undertaken pursuant to 
the Convention.
    Sincerely,
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: Identical letters were sent to Jesse Helms, chairman, and Joseph 
R. Biden, Jr., ranking member, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations;

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Benjamin A. Gilman, chairman, and Sam Gejdenson, ranking member, House 
Committee on International Relations.