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ACCORDINGLY, AS I ALLUDED TO EARLIER, WE WILL PROPOSE THAT 

 CONSIDERATION BE GIVEN TO THE IDEA OF USING RUSSIAN 

 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTISTS— MARINE CHEMISTS. BIOLOGISTS AND 

 GEOLOGISTS— TO PARTICIPATE IN RE-TRAINING THE FORMER WEAPONS 

 SCIENTISTS. KNOWLEDGEABLE U.S. SCIENTISTS MAY ASSIST IN THIS 

 RETRAINING. THE RE-TRAINING IF AUTHORIZED WOULD BE CONDUCTED 

 IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE' AND TECHNOLOGY 

 CENTER ANNOUNCED BY SECRETARY BAKER. 



THESE NEWLY-TRAINED SCIENTISTS COULD, GIVEN THEIR 

 BACKGROUNDS, MAKE ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEFINITION OF 

 THE ARCTIC POLLUTION PROBLEM, AND ALSO SUSTAIN MORE COMPLETE 

 AND ACCURATE MONITORING WORK IN THAT REGION IN THE FORESEEABLE 

 FUTURE. 



MR CHAIRMAN, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE 

 PROGRESS WE HAVE MADE IN THE LAST FEW YEARS IN INTERNATIONAL 

 ARCTIC COOPERATION — WHICH MAY PROVE TO BE OF GREAT USE IN 

 ADDRESSING THE NUCLEAR WASTE ISSUE. UNTIL RECENTLY, WE 

 PROMOTED OUR ARCTIC SCIENTIFIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL INTERESTS 

 INTERNATIONALLY THROUGH BILATERAL AGREEMENTS OR PROGRAMS. 

 ASIDE tROM THE 1973 AGREEMENT ON THE CONSERVATION OF POLAR 

 BEARS, THERE WERE NO ARCTIC-SPECIFIC MULTILATERAL AGREEMENTS OR 



