- THE UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WASHINGTON D C • tO3Ot • 2000 • In reply refer to 1-93 92610 1'01 IC't Honorable Sam Nunn Chairman Senate Armed Services Committee Dear Senator Nwm You and I spoke Sunday night at dinner about Nunn-Lugar assistance for Ukraine You asked how much of the $175 million which we committed to Ukraine we would in fact spend With the exception of $11 million in nuclear reactor safety assistance $10 million in assistance for a science and technology center and $3 9 million for miliwy-to-miliwy contacts the provision of any further assistance is contingent upon the Ukrainian Government completing the necessary internal procedures allowing entry into force of the October 2S 1993 Umbrella Agreement which Warren Christopher signed Ukraine must also enter into implementing agreements with us describing the types of assistance that we may provide Under these agreements Ukraine would receive $135 million in assistance to eliminate strategic offensive anns $7 5 million in assistance for control accounting and physical protection of nuclear material $5 million in emergency response assistance $2 4 million in assistance to establish a Govemment-to-Oovemment communications link and $2 26 million in export control assistance Nwm-Lugar assistance can begin as soon as those agreements enter into force but the scope and timing of our strategic dismantlement assistance will depend suictly on Ukraine's progress in deactivation We will judge this progress on the degree to which Ukraine follows through in a timely manner on i clear commitment to Secrcwy Christopher to include all types of strategic systems -- SS-19s SS-24s and ALCMs -- in deactivation Please give me a call should you need any additional infonnation We will be firm with the Ukrainians but as we spoke on Sunday Ukraine and its future as a stable and independent state is imponant to the United States We must be careful in how we proceed we have to encourage the Ukrainians to press ahead with From the Nunn-Lugar collection of the National Security Archive United States Senate Washington DC 20510-1001 SS-19 SS-24 and ALCM deactivation and return of nuclear warheads to Russia and if accomplishing these important objectives requires providing limited doses from our pledge we would be wise to make this gesture We will continue to keep you infonned as we move forward with this effort From the Nunn-Lugar collection of the National Security Archive I took your point about our relations with Russia they are central to our policy toward the east This said we need to do everything we can to encourage Ukraine to fulfill its Lisbon commitments Sincerely Frank G Wisner lOd TAT Z-' t'r II•-- -- - •