[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 11 (Monday, March 17, 2003)]
[Pages 316-317]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting a Certification Pursuant to 
the Chemical Weapons Convention

March 11, 2003

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

    Consistent 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 United States Senate on April 24, 1997, I certify that 
for calendar year 2002:
    In connection with Condition 9, Protection of Advanced 
Biotechnology, the legitimate commercial activities and interests of 
chemical, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical firms in the United States 
were not 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 Richard G. Lugar, chairman, Senate 
Committee on Foreign Relations.

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