For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
February 17, 2004
Presidential Letter
Text of a Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
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, and
based on the recommendation of the Department of Commerce, I certify
that for calendar year 2003:
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
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