NEGOTIATIONS.

SEC. 3151. NEGOTIATIONS. (a) In General.— The Congress urges the President to enter into negotiations with member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States, to complement ongoing and future arms reduction negotiations and agreements, with the goal of achieving verifiable agreements in the following areas: (1) Dismantlement of nuclear weapons. 106 STAT. 2643 (2) The safeguard and permanent disposal of nuclear mate-rials. (3) An end by the United States and member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States to the production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. (4) The extension of negotiations on these issues to all nations capable of producing nuclear weapons materials. (b) Exchanges of Information.— The Congress urges the President, in order to establish a data base on production capabilities of member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States and their stockpiles of fissile materials and nuclear weapons, to seek to achieve agreements with such states to reciprocally release information on— (1) United States and the member states nuclear weapons stockpiles, including the number of warheads and bombs by type, and schedules for weapons production and dismantlement; (2) the location, mission, and maximum annual production capacity of United States and member states facilities that are essential to the production of tritium for replenishment of that nation’s tritium stockpile; (3) the inventory of United States and member states facilities dedicated to the production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium for weapons purposes; and (4) United States and members states stockpiles of plutonium and highly enriched uranium used for nuclear weapons. (c) Technical Working Groups.— The Congress urges the President, in order to facilitate the achievement of agreements referred to in subsection (a), to establish with member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States and with other nations capable of producing nuclear weapons material bilateral or multilateral technical working groups to examine and demonstrate cooperative technical monitoring and inspection arrangements that could be applied to the verification of— (1) information on mission, location, and maximum annual production capacity of nuclear material production facilities and the size of stockpiles of plutonium and highly enriched uranium; (2) nuclear arms reduction agreements that would include provisions requiring the verifiable dismantlement of nuclear warheads; and (3) bilateral or multilateral agreements to halt the production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. (d) Report.— The President shall submit to the Congress, not later than March 31, 1993, a report on the progress made by the President in implementing the actions called for in subsections (a) through (c). (e) Production by Commonwealth of Independent States.— The Congress urges the Presidents of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States— (1) to institute a moratorium on production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons; and (2) to pledge to continue such moratorium for so long as the United States does not produce such materials.