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From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:jcma@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU Fri Apr 23 18:47:33 1993
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 15:03-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
Subject: On Advancing U.S. Relations with Russia 4.23.93
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org,
E X E C U T I V E O F F I C E O F T H E P R E S I D E N T
23-Apr-1993 02:32pm
TO: (See Below)
FROM: David Leavy
Office of Communications
SUBJECT: Russian Assistance Statement
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release April 23, 1993
Statement by the President
On Advancing U.S. Relations
with Russia and the other New Independent States
Since my summit in Vancouver with Russian President Boris
Yeltsin, I have pursued a number of measures to implement our
policy of economic and strategic partnership between our two
countries. These reflect my conviction that the movement toward
political and economic reform in Russia and the other new states
of the former Soviet Union is the greatest security challenge of
our day, and can fuel our own future prosperity as well.
It is time to put our relations with Russia and the other states
on a new footing. As an important step in that process, we need
to update the accumulated Cold War vestiges that remain in U.S.
laws and practices. Our statutes and regulations are filled with
restrictions on a communist Soviet Union, a nation that no longer
exists. Many of those provisions needlessly impede our relations
with the democratic states that replaced the Soviet Union.
Many in Congress have already taken the lead on re-examining
these provisions. Today, I have asked Ambassador-at-large Strobe
Talbott to coordinate our Executive review of these laws and
statutes on an expedited basis, with the goal of revising or
removing them where appropriate and consistent with our security
and other national interests. Related to this process, our
Administration will also begin a thorough review, working with
our allies, of how to re-orient export controls on sensitive
technology. I ask the bi-partisan leaders in Congress to work
with us to coordinate and expedite these reviews.
Today I am also announcing steps to help build a new security
partnership with Russia and the other states. We will accelerate
the deactivation of nuclear weapons systems already scheduled for
elimination under the START I Treaty, while working to accelerate
dismantlement in Russia and the three other states with nuclear
weapons on their territory. We are beginning a comprehensive
review of measures that could enhance strategic stability,
including the possibility of each side reprogramming its nuclear
missiles so they are not routinely aimed at each other. And we
will be starting a consultative process within the next two
months with Russia, our allies, and other states, aimed at
commencing negotiations toward a multilateral nuclear test ban.
Finally, we are continuing our efforts to strike a partnership
with political and economic reformers throughout Russia and the
other states. We are continuing work with our G-7 partners to
assemble the package of multilateral assistance that Secretaries
Bentsen and Christopher recently negotiated in Tokyo. And I am
continuing consultation with Congress over the further efforts
our own nation will take to assist Russia's reforms.
The hardest work of reform must be done by the people of Russia
and the other states themselves, and we applaud the courageous
steps they have taken. Yet we dare not miss opportunities to do
what we can to bolster their processes of democratization and
economic liberalization. The steps I am announcing today will
advance those objectives.
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