March 17, 2000

TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                              THE WHITE HOUSE

                       Office of the Press Secretary

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For Immediate Release                            March 17, 2000


                    TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
                 TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON
                  APPROPRIATIONS AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE
                    SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS


                              March 17, 2000


Dear Mr. Chairman:

In accordance with section 629 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appro-priations Act, 2000, as
contained in the Omnibus Appropriations Act for 2000 (Public Law 106-113),
I hereby certify that the United States Government is not implementing the
Memorandum of Understanding Relating to the Treaty Between the United
States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the
Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems of May 26, 1972, entered into
in New York on September 26, 1997, by the United States, Russia,
Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Ukraine.

Attached is a report to the Congress relating to this certification.

                              Sincerely,




                              WILLIAM J. CLINTON




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