ACCESSION
NUMBER:350486
FILE ID:EUR510
DATE:06/24/94
TITLE:THE GORE-CHERNOMYRDIN COMMISSION (06/24/94)
TEXT:*94062407.PFE
*EUR510 06/24/94
THE GORE-CHERNOMYRDIN COMMISSION
(Text: White House statement) (640)
(The following statement from the U.S.-Russian Joint Commission on Economic
and Technological Cooperation, titled "The Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission,"
was released June 23 by The White House Office of the Vice President.)
The third meeting of the U.S.-Russian Joint Commission on Economic and
Technological Cooperation was held June 22-23 in Washington. The
Commission is co-chaired by U.S. Vice President Al Gore and Russian Prime
Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. The Commission provides a framework for
promoting a partnership between the United States and Russia based on the
principles enumerated in the Vancouver and Moscow Summit declarations.
These include a shared commitment to: democracy and human rights; a market
economy and the rule of law; and international peace and stability. The
Commission's work is an effort to realize concrete benefits from this
partnership.
The decision to create the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission was taken by
Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin at the Vancouver Summit in June 1993. The
Commission's original mandate was to support cooperation in the areas of
space, energy, and high technology. Since then, the Commission has
expanded its scope to include other areas of U.S.-Russian cooperation, such
as business development, defense conversion and the environment. Its six
working Committees are chaired at the cabinet level. A list of American
members is attached.
The site of Commission sessions alternates between Russia and the United
States. The inaugural session occurred in Washington, D.C., in August
1993. The second session took place in Moscow in December 1993. This
third Commission session has registered major progress in all areas of the
Commission's work. These achievements include:
-- Space: signing of the $400 million contract for the joint Shuttle-Mir
program;
-- Business Development: signing of the $10-12 billion Sakhalin II project,
which represents the first development of a new Russian energy field
involving foreign direct investment;
-- Energy: intergovernmental agreement requiring a shutdown of plutonium
production reactors and the cessation of use of plutonium for nuclear
weapons;
-- Defense Conversion: announcement of the first awards to U.S. firms to
establish joint ventures with Russian defense firms converting to civilian
production, and incorporation of a Defense Conversion Enterprise Fund;
-- Science and Technology: conclusion of Memoranda of Understanding on a
bilateral science and technology program; and
-- Environment: signing of a bilateral environmental agreement.
1ommission meetings have also offered Russian and American participants an
opportunity to travel outside of their respective capitals to meet business
leaders and visit plants and technical facilities. During this visit Prime
Minister Chernomyrdin will travel Detroit for meetings with Michigan
business executives and a tour of General Motors auto production
facilities.
U.S. MEMBERS OF THE GORE-CHERNOMYRDIN COMMISSION
The Vice President -- Co-Chairman of Commission
Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown -- Vice Chairman of Commission & Chair of
Business Development Committee
Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary -- Chair of Energy Policy Committee
OSTP Director Dr. Jack Gibbons -- Chair of Science and Technology Committee
Secretary of Defense Bill Perry -- Chair of Defense Conversion Committee
NASA Administrator Dan Goldin -- Chair of Space Committee
EPA Administrator Carol Browner -- Chair of Environment Committee
Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott
Ambassador at Large for the New Independent States James Collins
ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE U.S. CHAIRMAN
U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor
Director of Central Intelligence Agency James Woolsey
Director, Office of Environmental Policy Katie McGinty
AID Administrator Brian Atwood
Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs Lawrence Summers
Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs Timothy Wirth
Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs Lynn Davis
Chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Ivan Selin
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator James Baker
OPIC President and CEO Ruth Harkin
EXIM Bank President and Chairman Ken Brodie
Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to the New Independent States Tom Simons
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