[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 25 (Monday, June 25, 2001)]
[Page 937]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting a Report on Haiti

June 18, 2001

Dear __________:

    Pursuant to section 559(b) of the Foreign Operations, Export 
Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000, I hereby 
transmit to you the final semiannual report concerning the status of 
Haiti's progress.
    The report contains eight subsections that provide information 
required by section 559(b) of the Act. 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>     Investigation and Prosecution of Extrajudicial and 
            Political Killings, and Cooperation with the United States 
            in Such Investigations;
<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,
                                                George W. Bush

Note: Identical letters were sent to Joseph R. Biden, Jr., chairman, and 
Jesse Helms, ranking member, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; 
Robert C. Byrd, chairman, and Ted Stevens, ranking member, Senate 
Committee on Appropriations; Henry J. Hyde, chairman, and Tom Lantos, 
ranking member, House Committee on International Relations; and C.W. 
Bill Young, chairman, and David R. Obey, ranking member, House Committee 
on Appropriations.