REPORT ON HELSINKI JOINT STATEMENT.

SEC. 1229. REPORT ON HELSINKI JOINT STATEMENT. (a) Requirement.—Not later than March 31, 1998, the President shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on National Security of the House of Representatives a report on the Helsinki Joint Statement on future reductions in nuclear forces. The report shall address the United States approach (including verification implications) to implementing the Helsinki Joint Statement, in particular, as that Statement relates to the following: (1) Lower aggregate levels of strategic nuclear warheads.111 STAT. 1945 (2) Measures relating to the transparency of strategic nuclear warhead inventories and the destruction of strategic nuclear warheads. (3) Deactivation of strategic nuclear delivery vehicles. (4) Measures relating to nuclear long-range sea-launched cruise missiles and tactical nuclear systems. (5) Issues related to transparency in nuclear materials. (b) Definition.—For purposes of this section, the term “Helsinki Joint Statement” means the agreements between the President of the United States and the President of the Russian Federation as contained in the Joint Statement on Parameters on Future Reductions in Nuclear Forces issued at Helsinki in March 1997.