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Statement by the President Following Senate Approval of the Consular Convention With the U.S.S.R.

March 16, 1967

IN GIVING its advice and consent to the ratification of the Consular Convention today, the Senate acted in the best tradition of American government. The impressive vote for ratification was the product, not only of strong bipartisan leadership, but also of responsible action by the membership.

The Convention will provide important measures to protect Americans traveling in the Soviet Union. Last year more than 18,000 of our citizens visited the U.S.S.R. These measures will become applicable as soon as the treaty enters into force.

I hope the Soviet Government will now move promptly to ratify the Convention and that arrangements will be made for its early entry into force.

Note: The text of the Convention, which was ratified by the United States on March 31, 1967, is printed in Executive D (88th Cong., 2d sess.).

Lyndon B. Johnson, Statement by the President Following Senate Approval of the Consular Convention With the U.S.S.R. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/237952

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