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From: "Michael McFaul" <McFaul@Hoover.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Re: 5510-Wallander/McFaul
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001

I thank Dr Wallander for her comments and allowing me to clarify my thoughts in that testimony (which were not so clear in the original document). I did not mean to imply that the United States should refuse to recognize Russia as the successor state to the USSR in multilateral organizations or treaties. The independent state of Russia made the decision to accept the obligations and benefits of continuing on these organizations and agreements as the successor state to the USSR. Nor does the United States have the power to unilaterally remove Russia from these international institutions. Rather, I mean to imply that we should review our own domestic legislation that was written specifically to punish the USSR. We do have the right to review our own laws and this was the intent of my poorly worded statement.

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