GCC TEXT: JOINT STATEMENT ON NUCLEAR MATERIALS
(Text: White House release) (280)

(The following joint statement was released July 16 by the White House
Office of the Vice President following the seventh meeting of the
U.S.-Russian Joint Commission on Economic and Technical Cooperation,
also known as the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission.)

JOINT STATEMENT ON CONTROL, ACCOUNTING, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION OF
NUCLEAR MATERIALS

On the occasion of the seventh meeting of the U.S.-Russian Joint
Commission on Economic and Technological Cooperation (the
Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission) in Moscow on July 15-16, 1996, the
Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy and the United States Department of
Energy reaffirmed their commitment to jointly cooperate to ensure the
highest possible standards of nuclear material control, accounting,
and physical protection in accordance with the Agreement on Control,
Accounting, and Physical Protection dated September 2, 1993.  The U.S.
and Russian sides noted the progress that has been made in this area. 
They recalled the agreements reached at the previous six meetings
between Vice President Gore and Prime Minister Chernomyrdin, as well
as the agreements between our Presidents at the Nuclear Summit to
expand cooperation.  They further decided that in 1996 cooperation on
nuclear material control, accounting, and physical protection should
be expanded to the following facilities:

-- Moscow Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics

-- St. Petersburg Central Design Bureau of Machine Building

-- Electrochemical Combine (for Uranium Isotope Separation) in
Zelenogorsk (Krasnoyarsk-45)

-- Moscow Scientific Research and Design Institute of Power Technology
(NIKIET)

Hazel R. O'Leary                     Viktor N. Mikhailov
SECRETARY OF ENERGY OF THE           MINISTER FOR ATOMIC ENERGY
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA             OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

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Moscow, July 16, 1996
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