Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Monday, January 24, 1994 Volume 30ÐNumber 3 Pages 55±134 1 VerDate 25-MAR-98 10:59 Mar 28, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00001 Frm 00001 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 E:\TEMP\P03JA4.000 INET03 Contents Addresses and Remarks Interviews With the News MediaÐContinued Community empowerment programÐ101 January 16 (No. 45) with Syrian President Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., at Howard AsadÐ91 UniversityÐ105 Joint Statements Los Angeles earthquakeÐ116 Minsk, Belarus, future leadersÐ87 American-Russian Statement on Human Moscow, Russia RightsÐ83 ReceptionÐ56 Moscow DeclarationÐ84 Town meetingÐ67 Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Radio addressÐ86 Destruction and the Means of Their DeliveryÐ80 Communications to Congress Presidents of the United States, Russia, and UkraineÐ79 Adjustment to the deficit, letterÐ132 Letters and Messages Communications to Federal Agencies Bobby R. Inman, letter accepting the Fair housing, memorandumÐ114 withdrawal of nomination to be Secretary of DefenseÐ120 Executive Orders Disaster assistance to California, letter to Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Federal Emergency Management Agency ExperimentsÐ118 DirectorÐ118 Leadership and Coordination of Fair Housing Meetings With Foreign Leaders in Federal Programs: Affirmatively Furthering Fair HousingÐ110 Jordanian King HusseinÐ131 Russian President YeltsinÐ57, 84 Interviews With the News Media Syrian President AsadÐ91 Ukrainian President KravchukÐ57 Exchanges with reporters Brussels, BelgiumÐ55, 56 Statements Other Than Presidential Moscow, RussiaÐ57 Death of Foreign Minister Johan Jurgen Holst Geneva, SwitzerlandÐ91 of NorwayÐ86 Oval OfficeÐ116, 131 Interviews Supplementary Materials Larry KingÐ120 Acts approved by the PresidentÐ134 Print journalists on Air Force OneÐ96 Checklist of White House press releasesÐ133 News conferences Digest of other White House January 14 (No. 44) with Russian President announcementsÐ132 YeltsinÐ58 Nominations submitted to the SenateÐ133 WEEKLY COMPILATION OF regulations prescribed by the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register, approved by the President (37 FR 23607; 1 CFR Part 10). 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The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents is pub- There are no restrictions on the republication of material lished pursuant to the authority contained in the Federal Reg- appearing in the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Docu- ister Act (49 Stat. 500, as amended; 44 U.S.C. Ch. 15), under ments. 2 VerDate 25-MAR-98 10:59 Mar 28, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00001 Frm 00002 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 E:\TEMP\P03JA4.000 INET03 Week Ending Friday, January 21, 1994 Exchange With Reporters in attitude that Kravchuk and Yeltsin have Brussels, Belgium brought to this whole endeavor. But I don't January 9, 1994 think I can say any more tonight. I don't even want toÐÐ Speech to Future Leaders of Europe Q. Mr. President, how do you think your Partnership For Peace speech was received tonight? Q. Do you think Eastern European coun- The President. Oh, very well. I mean, you tries are going to be reassured by the Part- know, we consciously picked a very small nership For Peace? room, and the Europeans are normally much The President. I hope so. more polite when speeches are given like Q. [Inaudible]Ðgiving Russia veto? that. It was a serious speech. But a lot of the students came up to me afterwards and The President. I think they need to know said that they were pleased to know that we this is not a question of veto power. But keep were thinking about their future and that in mind there are certain responsibilities in- they found the ideas basically things they herent in being in NATO, first of all, that agreed with. I was very encouragedÐÐ NATO allies all remind each other of all the Q. Mr. President, can you tell us about time. And what I said tonight I want to reem- the Ukraine? phasize. What I want to do is to leave open The President. ÐÐand then after I got the possibility of creating the best possible out into the crowd in the Place, there was future for Europe, where they all have the much more sort of overt enthusiasm. And the chance to be democracies, they all have a Prime Minister and others were saying, ``You chance to be market economies, they all have know, that's the way we are. We're restrained a chance to respect one another's securities in speeches, but these people are glad to see and to support it and to do it in a way that you. Look at the Place.'' also permits us to do the best we can if the best future is not open to us. That's what Ukraine the Partnership For Peace does. It's not giv- Q. What can you tell us about the Ukraine, ing anybody a veto on future NATO mem- Mr. President? Are you close to an agree- bership. ment, or do you have an agreement? Can Q. But what do you say to people who Kravchuk sell it? Might we go to Kiev? say that NATO isn't relevant if it can't guar- The President. All I can tell you tonight antee the peace, let's say, in Bosnia? is that we worked very, very hard to bring The President. Well, that was never the the three of us together, and we've made a purpose of NATO. The purpose of NATO terrific amount of progress. And at least was to guarantee the peace and security of when I left to go to the speech I was not the countries that were member nations. And in a position to make an announcement. when the United States asked NATO to ap- Q. But you think it might be possible that prove some actions in and around Bosnia, it this could happen and that Kravchuk could was the first time we'd ever done anything sell it? out of the area of the NATO members them- The President. Well, I don't want toÐ selves. presumably, Mr. Kravchuk wouldn't agree to So we're working on this. It's not been es- anything he didn't think he could sell. I tablished yet that anyone is capable of solving thinkÐI feelÐI'm proud of the work that's a civil war in another country. That's not been done, and I appreciate very much the been established yet. 55 VerDate 25-MAR-98 10:32 Mar 29, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00001 Frm 00001 Fmt 1244 Sfmt 1244 C:\TERRI\P03JA4.018 INET03 56 Jan. 9 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 1994 Q. [Inaudible]Ðair strikes will be dis- Atlantic Council, our military group, to re- cussed tomorrow, air strikes possible tomor- view it to say it was appropriate and then row? to go to the U.N. So I think, plainly, we know The President. Good night, everybody. that if the language stays in there and if the shelling continues, there will have to be some NOTE: The exchange began at approximately 8:30 action taken. p.m. at the Au Vieux Saint Martin Restaurant. A So I think you can tell by what happens tape was not available for verification of the con- tomorrow. If we keep the language, which tent of this exchange. This item was not received in time for publication in the appropriate issue. I hope and believe we will, then it's basically up to the behavior of those who are shelling Sarajevo, principally the Serbs. We'll just Remarks and an Exchange With have to see what happens. Reporters in Brussels Aid to Russia January 10, 1994 Q. With regard to Russia, is there a larger The President. As you know, we had a economic plan envisioned? good, long dinner tonight. And we talked The President. Well, what they talked about only two subjects; we talked about about today wasÐfirst of all, we have quite Russia and Bosnia. We spent the first half, a large plan. We've got to dislodge some of perhaps more than half the dinner, on Rus- the money that we've committed that was sia. And I basically gave a report about what tied up in the international institutions. They I would be doing in Russia, and they gave all believe that we needed a combination of me their advice about what we could do to two things: We need to try to speed up the strengthen the process of reform, create a privatization, because in the end that was the system of support for people who had been real guarantor of reformÐand Russia has dislocated economically, how we could build done a phenomenal job of privatizing indus- a better partnership with Russia and have the tries, thousands just in the last yearÐand kind of future we want, with Russia being secondly, that we needed some sort of social a great nation but a nonaggressive one. And support network, an unemployment system, it was very, very helpful. I mean, they had a retraining system, a system to train people very keen insights, and a lot of them had just to manage and operate businesses and banks been there, so it was helpful.