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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary


For Immediate Release December 19, 1997
                          TEXT OF A LETTER FROM
                     THE PRESIDENT TO THE SPEAKER OF
                     THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND
                        THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE

December 19, 1997

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 that:

In connection with Condition (3), Establishment of an Internal Oversight Office, the internal audit office of the Preparatory Commission was expanded into the Office of Internal Oversight of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons upon the establishment of the Organization.

Sincerely,

WILLIAM J. CLINTON

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