[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 39 (Monday, September 29, 1997)]
[Page 1397]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

<R04>
Memorandum on Funding for the African Crisis Response Initiative

September 22, 1997

Presidential Determination No. 97-34

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Transfer of $4 million in FY 1997 Economic Support Funds to the 
Peacekeeping Operations Account to Support the African Crisis Response 
Initiative

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 610(a) of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (the ``Act''), I hereby 
determine that it is necessary for the purposes of the Act that $4 
million of funds made available under Chapter 4 of Part II of the Act 
for fiscal year 1997 be transferred to, and consolidated with, funds 
made available under Chapter 6 of Part II of the Act.
    I hereby authorize the use in fiscal year 1997 of the aforesaid $4 
million in funds made available under Chapter 4 of Part II of the Act to 
provide peacekeeping assistance to support countries participating in 
the African Crisis Response Initiative.
    You are hereby authorized and directed to report this determination 
immediately 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 September 23.