THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release                                  February 10, 1999



                  TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
                TO THE CHAIRMEN OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE
                      COMMITTEES ON APPROPRIATIONS

                            February 9, 1999


Dear Mr. Chairman:

In accordance with section 625 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, 
and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 
(as contained in the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental
Appropriations Act, 1999, Public Law 105-277) (the "Act"), I hereby 
certify and affirm 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 (the "MOU"), entered into in New York on September 26, 
1997.

Attached is a report to the Congress on the MOU submitted pursuant to
section 625 of the Act.

                               Sincerely,


                               WILLIAM J. CLINTON




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