[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 12 (Monday, March 27, 2000)]
[Pages 579-580]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Letter to Congressional Leaders on the Non-Implementation of the 
Memorandum of Understanding Relating to the Anti-Ballistic Missile 
Treaty

March 17, 2000

Dear Mr. Chairman:

    In accordance with section 629 of the Departments of Commerce, 
Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2000, as contained in the Omnibus Appropriations Act for 2000 
(Public Law 106-113), I hereby certify that the United States Government 
is not implementing the Memorandum of Understanding Relating to the 
Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet 
Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems 
of May 26, 1972, entered into in New York on September 26, 1997, by the 
United States, Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Ukraine.
    Attached is a report to the Congress relating to this certification.
     Sincerely,
                                            William J. Clinton

 Note: Identical letters were sent to C.W. Bill Young, chairman, House 
Committee on Appropriations, and Ted Stevens, chairman, Senate Committee 
on Appropriations. This item was not received in time for publication in 
the appropriate issue.

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