For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
February 26, 2004
Message to the Senate of the United States
TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES:
Consistent with Condition (l)(A) of the resolution of advice and
consent to the ratification of the Protocols to the North Atlantic
Treaty of 1949 on the Accession of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia, adopted by the United
States Senate on May 8, 2003, and based on the recommendation of the
Department of State, I hereby certify to the Senate that:
(i) the inclusion of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania,
Slovakia, and Slovenia in NATO will not have the effect of
increasing
the overall percentage share of the United States in the common
budgets of NATO; and (ii) the inclusion of Bulgaria, Estonia,
Latvia,
Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia in NATO does not detract
from the ability of the United States to meet or to fund its
military
requirements outside the North Atlantic area.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
February 25, 2004.
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