[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 18 (Monday, May 5, 1997)]
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Memorandum on Use of Funds for the U.S. Contribution to the Korean 
Peninsula Energy Development Organization

April 24, 1997

Presidential Determination No. 97-21

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Use of Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related 
Programs Account Funds for the U.S. Contribution to the Korean Peninsula 
Energy Development Organization (KEDO)

    Pursuant to the authority vested in my by section 614(a)(1) of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, 22 U.S.C. 2364(a)(1), I 
hereby determine that it is important to the security interests of the 
United States to furnish up to $25 million in funds made available under 
heading ``Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related 
Programs'' in title II of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and 
Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1997 (as enacted in Public Law 104-
208) 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 memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary 
on April 26.