[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 51 (Monday, December 23, 2002)]
[Page 2175]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting a Report on World 
Intellectual Property Rights

December 17, 2002

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

    As required by the second proviso of the text of the resolution of 
advise 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 a report prepared by my 
Administration on the status of the ratification of those treaties and 
related materials.
     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.