ACCESSION
NUMBER:370267
FILE ID:EUR212
DATE:12/06/94
TITLE:U.S.-RUSSIA JOINT COMMISSION ON POW/MIAS TO HOLD PLENARY (12/06/94)
TEXT:*94120607.PFE
*EUR212 12/06/94
U.S.-RUSSIA JOINT COMMISSION ON POW/MIAS TO HOLD PLENARY
(Text: State Department statement) (420)
Washington -- The U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs plenary will be
held in Washington December 7-9.
Following is the text of the December 6 statement by Christine Shelly,
acting spokesman of the State Department:
(Begin text)
U.S.-RUSSIA JOINT COMMISSION ON POW/MIAS PLENARY TO BE HELD IN WASHINGTON,
DECEMBER 7-9, 1994
The eleventh United States-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs (USRJC)
plenary is scheduled to take place in Washington, December 7-9, 1994. The
Joint Commission has met nine times in Moscow, commencing March 1992, and
most recently in August/September 1994. The current Washington meeting is
the second to be held here. The commission has also traveled to the Baltic
States, Ukraine, Armenia, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and to
eastern Russia in an effort to expand interview efforts and archival
searches.
This plenary is intended to promote the work already undertaken in previous
commission meetings held over the past two and one-half years. Discussions
will involve working group sessions for World War II, Korean, Cold War, and
Vietnam; permit Russian delegates to examine our archival holdings; meet
with senior American military and civilian officials, and provide a forum
for family members to directly ask Russian commission members questions
pertaining to individual cases.
The Joint Commission was established in March 1992 by agreement between
Presidents Bush and Yeltsin to determine the fates of American servicemen
1rom World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War who
may still be missing on the territory of the former Soviet Union or about
whom the Russians may have information. The commission also has an
objective to assist the Russians in learning about the fates of Russian
servicemen in Afghanistan. The U.S. side of the commission is headed by
Ambassador Malcolm Toon. Other members include Senators Bob Smith and John
Kerry; Congressmen Sam Johnson and Pete Peterson -- both former POWs in
Vietnam; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/MIA, James Wold;
president Joint Military Intelligence College, Denis Clift; principal
deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs,
Ambassador Peter Tomsen; Department of State director for Independent
States and Commonwealth affairs, John Herbst; and acting national
archivist, Dr. Trudy Peterson. The Russian side, headed by General
Volkogonev, includes parliamentarians, the heads of the major archives, and
officials of the Ministries of Defense, Foreign Affairs, the Interior and
security services.
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