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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT: Chemical Weapons

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                              THE WHITE HOUSE

                       Office of the Press Secretary

_________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release                            January 18, 2001


                    TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
              TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                      AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE


                                 January 17, 2001


Dear Mr. Speaker:   (Dear Mr. President:)

In accordance 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 Senate of the United States on April 24, 1997, I hereby certify in
connection with Condition (7)(C)(i), "Effectiveness of Australia Group,"
that:

     Australia Group members continue to maintain an equally effective or
     more comprehensive control over the export of  toxic chemicals and
     their precursors; dual-use processing equipment human, animal, and
     plant pathogens and toxins with potential biological weapons
     applications; and dual-use biological equipment, as that afforded by
     the Australia Group as of April 25, 1997; and

     The Australia Group remains a viable mechanism for limiting the spread
     of chemical and biological weapons-related materials and technology,
     and the effectiveness of the Australia Group has not been undermined
     by changes in membership, lack of compliance with common export
     controls and nonproliferation measures, or the weakening of common
     controls and nonproliferation measures, in force as of April 25, 1997.

                              Sincerely,



                              WILLIAM J. CLINTON



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