[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 41 (Wednesday, March 1, 2000)]
[Presidential Documents]
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                Presidential Determination No. 2000-15 of February 24, 
                2000

                
U.S. Contribution to the Korean Peninsula Energy 
                Development Organization (KEDO): Certification and 
                Waiver Under the Heading ``Nonproliferation, Anti-
                Terrorism, Demining and Related Programs'' in Title II 
                of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and 
                Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000, as Enacted 
                in Public Law 106-113

                Memorandum for the Secretary of State

                Pursuant to section 576(b) of the Foreign Operations, 
                Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations 
                Act, 2000 (the Act), as enacted in the Omnibus 
                Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106-
                113), I hereby certify that:

(1) the parties to the Agreed Framework have taken and continue to take 
demonstrable steps to implement the Joint Declaration on Denuclearization 
of the Korean Peninsula in which the Government of North Korea has 
committed not to test, manufacture, produce, receive, possess, store, 
deploy, or use nuclear weapons, and not to possess nuclear reprocessing or 
uranium enrichment facilities;

(2) the parties to the Agreed Framework have taken and continue to take 
demonstrable steps to pursue the North-South dialogue; and

(3) North Korea is complying with all provisions of the Agreed Framework.

                Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 
                576(d) of the Act, I hereby determine that it is vital 
                to the national security interests of the United States 
                to furnish up to $15 million in funds made available 
                under the heading ``Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, 
                Demining, and Related Programs'' of the Act, for 
                assistance for KEDO, and therefore I hereby waive the 
                requirement in section 576(b) to certify that:

(4) North Korea has not diverted assistance provided by the United States 
for purposes for which it was not intended; and

(5) North Korea is not seeking to develop or acquire the capability to 
enrich uranium, or any additional capability to reprocess spent nuclear 
fuel.

                You are hereby authorized and directed to report this 
                certification and waiver to the Congress and to arrange 
                for its publication in the Federal Register.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, February 24, 2000.

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