[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 21 (Monday, May 27, 1996)]
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[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization

May 22, 1996

Presidential Determination No. 96-26

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Use of International Organizations and Programs Account Funds 
for the U.S. Contribution to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development 
Organization (KEDO)

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 614(a)(1) of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, 22 U.S.C. 2364(a)(1) (the 
``Act''), I hereby determine that it is important to the security 
interests of the United States to furnish up to $22 million in funds 
made available under heading ``International Organizations and 
Programs'' in title IV of the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act, 
1996 (Public Law 104-107) for the United States contribution to the 
Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization without regard to any 
provision of law within the scope of section 614(a)(1). I hereby 
authorize this contribution.
    You are hereby authorized and directed to transmit this 
determination to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the 
Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: This letter was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
May 23.