[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 35 (Monday, September 2, 2002)]
[Page 1470]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Letter to Congressional Leaders Reporting a Certification on Protection 
of Advanced Biotechnology

August 30, 2002

Dear Mr. Speaker:  (Dear Mr. Chairman:)

    In accordance with the resolution of advice and consent to 
ratification of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, 
Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their 
Destruction, adopted by the Senate of the United States on April 24, 
1997, I certify that for calendar year 2001:
    In accordance with Condition 9, Protection of Advanced 
Biotechnology, the legitimate commercial activities and interests of 
chemical, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical firms in the United States 
are not being harmed significantly by the limitations of the Convention 
on access to, and production of, those chemicals and toxins listed in 
Schedule 1 of the Annex on Chemicals.
     Sincerely,
                                                George W. Bush

Note: Identical letters were sent to J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the 
House of Representatives, and Joseph R. Biden, Jr., chairman, Senate 
Committee on Foreign Relations.