[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 34 (Monday, August 30, 1999)]
[Page 1663]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting a Report on Iraq's Weapons 
of Mass Destruction Programs

August 24, 1999

Dear Mr. Speaker:  (Dear Mr. President:)

    Pursuant to section 585(c) of the Foreign Operations, Export 
Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1999, as contained 
in the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 1999 (Public Law 105-277) (the 
``Act''), I hereby transmit a report concerning Iraq's weapons of mass 
destruction programs.
    The report is comprised of three sections that provide the 
information required by section 585(c) of the Act, to the extent that 
such information is available: assessment of Iraq's nuclear and other 
weapons of mass destruction programs and its efforts to move toward 
procurement of nuclear weapons and the means to deliver weapons of mass 
destruction; assessment of the International Atomic Energy Agency's 
(IAEA) action team reports, and other IAEA efforts to monitor the extent 
and nature of Iraq's nuclear program; and an opinion on the value of 
maintaining the ongoing inspection regime rather than replacing it with 
a passive monitoring system.
    Sincerely,
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: Identical letters were sent to J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the 
House of Representatives, and Albert Gore, Jr., President of the Senate. 
This letter was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on August 
25.