American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1990 presents the principal public foreign policy messages, addresses, statements, interviews, press briefings and conferences, and congressional testimony by the executive branch of the U.S. Government during 1990. A few statements issued by international organizations or made by foreign leaders are also included because of their impact on the formulation of U.S. policy. Various official publications have previously included many documents presented here, but this volume is the first and probably only instance where they are published together in the broader context of U.S. foreign relations. Some documents, including several background briefings, are published here for the first time. This volume covers all major foreign policy subjects and geographical areas. Since the full public record on each major foreign affairs issue would be excessively large, the editors have selected the most important documents or portions of documents on the major issues. They have balanced the need for full documentation on the major crisis areas in U.S. foreign relations with less extensive coverage of a wide range of less critical but still significant issues. Organized chronologically by functional and geographical subjects in 15 chapters, the editors have followed a global rather than a bilateral approach to the issues of narcotics, terrorism, human rights, and refugees. This volume includes a combined table of contents and list of documents, list of persons, and list of abbreviations. The volume concludes with a detailed subject and name index by document number. This volume continues the Department of State series begun in 1950 with the publication of A Decade of American Foreign Policy: Basic Documents, 1941–1949 (Senate Document 123, 81st Congress, 1st Session) and the subsequent publication in 1957 of American Foreign Policy, 1950-1955: Basic Documents (2 vols., Department of State Publication 6446). Annual volumes entitled American Foreign Policy: Current Documents were issued for the years 1956-1967. After an interruption, the Department resumed the series in 1983 with the publication of American Foreign Policy: Basic Documents, 1977-1980. In 1984 it revived the annual volumes with the publication of American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1981, and subsequently published annual volumes for 1982 through 1989. The Department also published a revised edition of A Decade of American Foreign Policy: Basic Documents, 1941-1949 in 1985. The Microfiche Supplements Beginning with the year 1981, microfiche supplements to this series have been published to ensure wider official and public access to important series of documents. The subtitles to the American Foreign Policy microfiche supplements have varied according to the types of documents reproduced in them. For the 1981-1983 supplements, the subtitle Current Documents was used to reflect the diverse categories of documents included in these editions. For the 1984-1986 supplements, which reproduced press briefings, the subtitle was changed to Foreign Affairs Press Briefings. It has been expanded for the 1987, 1988, and 1989 supplements to Foreign Affairs Press Briefings and Treaties because they included texts of treaties signed by the United States and foreign governments in that year. Compiling and Editorial Principles In preparing this volume, the editors have systematically reviewed all major governmental documentary sources. These sources included documentary collections from the Offices of the President's Press Secretary and the Vice President's Press Secretary; the Department of State Office of Press Relations as well as numerous other offices and iii bureaus of the Department; the Historical Office of the Office of the Secretary of Defense; the Offices of Public Affairs of the Agency for International Development, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, U.S. Information Agency, U.S. Trade Representative, and the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Treasury; and the various foreign affairs committees of the Congress. The chapters have been reviewed by the appropriate Department policy offices, but the Historian's Office is responsible for the final selection of documents included here. Except for silent editing of obvious spelling errors, the editors have not altered the source texts. Footnotes and ellipses that appear in the source text are preserved and identified. Brackets in the source text (except for definitions of acronyms or identification of people added by previous editors of published source texts) are preserved only when necessary for the sake of clarity; bracketed insertions such as “applause" or "laughter", for example, are not noted. The editors have inserted bracketed words or phrases on occasion to clarify or correct confusing language in the source text. If more than the brief opening or concluding remarks or the names of participants in background briefings are omitted, the editors have labeled the document an “extract." Ellipses of three periods identify the omitted portions in cases involving less than one paragraph; ellipses of seven points identify omissions of an entire paragraph or more. The omissions are solely matters of editorial judgment to exclude unrelated documentation and to conserve space. The first footnote to each document identifies the source text. Other footnotes explain references in the text and provide cross-references to other documents in the volume or in previous volumes in the American Foreign Policy series. Where important information derived from a published or unpublished, unclassified source is provided in a footnote, the source is given. Citations in source footnotes reflect the special nature of the sources used in preparing the volume. The source texts of press releases, statements, and speeches are the published texts from Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Department of State Dispatch, and other publications. Unpublished transcripts are the source for texts not already in print. Department of State daily press briefings, numbered press releases, and the public statements of the Secretary of Defense are cited in the source notes because they are preserved intact as a series and later deposited in bound volumes or on microfiche in selected libraries. Unpublished documents are generally identified only by agency of origin, such as Department of Defense files, Department of the Treasury files, or Department of State files. More specific permanent file provenance designations are generally not possible for such contemporary documents. Compilers and Editors Editor Sherrill B. Wells planned and directed the compilation and substantive review of this volume. The entire professional staff of the Office of the Historian contributed to the compilation of the text. The compilers of each part were as follows: Chapters 1 and 2, Evans Gerakas; Chapters 3 and 4, David W. Mabon; Chapter 5, William F. Sanford, Jr.; Chapter 6, Mr. Gerakas; Chapter 7, Paul Claussen; Chapter 8, David H. Herschler and Taylor Fain; Chapter 9, Mr. Fain; Chapter 10, Evan M. Duncan, James E. Miller, Charles S. Sampson, and Ms. Wells; Chapter 11, Gabrielle S. Mallon, Nina J. Noring, and Louis J. Smith; Chapter 12, Mr. Claussen; Chapter 13, Edward C. Keefer and Harriet D. Schwar; Chapter 14, Nina D. Howland; and Chapter 15, Nancy L. Golden and Mr. Fain. Senior staff members Messrs. Claussen, Mabon, Ms. Noring, and Mr. Sampson assisted the editor in the review of the text. Althea W. Robinson performed the technical editing of the volume under the supervision of Rita M. Baker. Max Franke compiled the index. William Z. Slany The Historian Office of the Historian Bureau of Public Affairs Contents 3. Bipartisan Support Needed to Manage Change in "Way That Protects Qar Basic Values": Prepared Statement by Secretary of State Baker, March Building a Newly Democratic International Society: Address by Secretary of State Baker Before the World Affairs Council, Dallas, March 30, 1990... 5. A New Partnership of Nations: Address by President Bush Before the 6. Objection to Provisions of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991: Statement by President Bush, February 16, 1990... 7. Request for Funds for a New Moscow Embassy: Prepared Statement by the Under Secretary of State for Management (Selin), March 28, 1991 8. Expansion of Authority of Ambassadors Overseas: Letter From President V 223 |