[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 22 (Monday, June 3, 1996)]
[Pages 953-954]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on the United States-Israel Arrow Deployability Program

May 28, 1996

Presidential Determination No. 96-27

Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense

Subject: U.S.-Israel Arrow Deployability Program

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994, Public Law 103-160, I hereby 
certify that:
    --the United States and the Government of Israel have entered into 
an agreement governing the conduct and funding of the Arrow 
Deployability Program;
    --the Arrow Deployability Program will benefit the United States and 
has not been barred by other Congressional direction;
    --the Arrow missile successfully completed a flight test on June 12, 
1994, in which it intercepted a target missile under realistic test 
conditions; and
    --the Government of Israel is continuing, in accordance with its 
previous public commitments, to adhere to export controls pursuant to 
the Guidelines and Annex of the Missile Technology Control Regime.

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    You are authorized and directed to notify the Congress of this 
determination and to publish it in the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary 
on May 29.