[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 22 (Monday, June 2, 1997)]
[Pages 795-796]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Assistance to Turkey

May 23, 1997

Presidential Determination No. 97-24

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Waiver of Statutory Restrictions to Permit Assistance to Turkey

    Pursuant to subsection (b) of section 620I of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961, as amended, I hereby determine that it is in the national 
security interest of the United States that assistance be furnished to 
Turkey without regard to the restriction in subsection (a) of section 
620I. You are authorized and directed to transmit this determination and 
justification to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the 
Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., June 3, 1997.

Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary 
on May 29, and it will be published in the Federal Register on June 4.

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