[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 28 (Monday, July 17, 2000)]
[Pages 1625-1626]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting a Report on Haiti

July 11, 2000

Dear Mr. Chairman:

    Pursuant to section 559(b) of the Foreign Operations, Export 
Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 
106-113), I hereby transmit to you a report concerning the status of 
Haiti's progress.
    The report contains eight subsections, that provide information 
required by section 559(b) of the Act, to the extent that such 
information is available. These subsections address:
 <bullet>    Governmental Institutions Envisioned in the 1987 Haitian 
            Constitution;
 <bullet>    Privatization of Haiti's Major Public Entities;
 <bullet>    Efforts to Re-sign the Lapsed Bilateral Repatriation 
            Agreement, and Cooperation in Halting Illegal Migration;
 <bullet>    Investigations and Prosecution of Extrajudicial and 
            Political Killings, and Cooperation with the United States 
            in Such Investigation;
 <bullet>    Removal and Maintenance of Separation of Human Rights 
            Violators from Haitian Public Security Entities or Units;
 <bullet>    Ratification of the 1997 Maritime Counter-Narcotics 
            Agreement;
 <bullet>    Development of Haiti's Domestic Capacity to Conduct Free, 
            Fair, Democratic, and Administratively Sound Elections; and
 <bullet>    Demonstrated Commitment of Haiti's Minister of Justice to 
            the Professionalism of the Judiciary, and Progress Toward 
            Judicial Branch Independence.
     Sincerely,
                                            William J. Clinton

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 Note: Identical letters were sent to Jesse Helms, chairman, Senate 
Committee on Foreign Relations, Ted Stevens, chairman, Senate Committee 
on Appropriations, Benjamin A. Gilman, chairman, House Committee on 
International Relations, and C.W. Bill Young, chairman, House Committee 
on Appropriations. This letter was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on July 12.