Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting a Report on Ratification of World Intellectual Property Organization Treaties
Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)
As required by the second proviso of the resolution of advice and consent to ratification of the World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty and the World Intellectual Property Organization Performances and Phonograms Treaty, passed by the Senate on October 21, 1998, I transmit herewith the first report on the status of the ratification of those treaties and related matters.
Sincerely,
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
NOTE: Identical letters were sent to J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Jesse Helms, chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. This letter was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on February 1.
William J. Clinton, Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting a Report on Ratification of World Intellectual Property Organization Treaties Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/227578