[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 44, Number 36 (Monday, September 15, 2008)]
[Pages 1186-1187]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Message to the Congress on the Proposed Russia-United States Agreement 
on Cooperation in the Field of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy

September 8, 2008

To the Congress of the United States:

    On May 13, 2008, I transmitted a message to the Congress 
transmitting the text of a proposed Agreement for Cooperation Between 
the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the 
Russian Federation for Cooperation in the Field of Peaceful Uses of 
Nuclear Energy (the ``proposed Agreement''), pursuant to sections 123 b. 
and 123 d. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
2153(b), (d)) (the ``Act'').

    In view of recent actions by the Government of the Russian 
Federation incompatible with peaceful relations with its sovereign and 
democratic neighbor Georgia, I have determined that the determination 
regarding the proposed Agreement in Presidential Determination 2008-19 
is no longer effective. Accordingly, a statutory prerequisite for the 
proposed Agreement to become effective, as required by section 123 b. of 
the Act, is no longer satisfied. If circumstances should permit future 
reconsideration of the proposed Agreement, a new determination will be 
made and the proposed Agreement will be

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submitted for congressional review pursuant to section 123 of the Act.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 September 8, 2008.