[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 5 (Monday, February 7, 2000)]
[Page 202]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting a Report on the Status of 
the Ratification of World Intellectual Property Organization Treaties

January 31, 2000

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

    As required by the second proviso of the resolution of advice and 
consent to ratification of the World Intellectual Property
Organization Copyright Treaty and the World Intellectual Property 
Organization Performances and Phonograms Treaty, passed by the Senate on 
October 21, 1998, I transmit herewith the first report on the status of 
the ratification of those treaties and related matters.
    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 February 1.