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                                                                    Exhibit 99.1

                                                  OMB Number: 3235-0569
                                                  Expires: January 31, 2003


STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL
OFFICER REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS

I,   Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr., the principal executive officer of Baxter
     International Inc., state and attest that:

(1)  To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports of
     Baxter International Inc., and, except as corrected or supplemented in a
     subsequent covered report:

     o    no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as
          of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a
          report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on
          which it was filed); and

     o    no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make
          the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances
          under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period
          covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or
          definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed).

(2)  I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's audit
     committee.

(3)  In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or before
     the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

     o    Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001
          of Baxter International Inc.;

     o    all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive
          proxy materials of Baxter International Inc. filed with the Commission
          subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and

     o    any amendments to any of the foregoing.


/s/ Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr.
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Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr.                 Subscribed and sworn to
Chairman of the Board of Directors and       before me this 7th day of
Chief Executive Officer                      August, 2002.
(principal executive officer)

August 7, 2002                                     /s/ Helen F. Tartakoff
                                                   -----------------------------
                                                   Notary Public

                                                   My Commission Expires:
                                                   June 15, 2004

                                                   (see disclosure on reverse)

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