[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 50 (Monday, December 15, 1997)]
[Page 1997]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Emigration Policies of Certain Former Eastern Bloc States

December 5, 1997

Presidential Determination No. 98-7

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Presidential Determination Under Subsections 402(a) and 409(a) 
of the Trade Act of 1974, as Amended--Emigration Policies of Albania, 
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by subsections 402(a) and 
409(a) of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2432(a) and 2439(a) (the 
``Act'')), I determine that Albania, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, 
Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan are not in violation of paragraph (1), (2), 
or (3) of subsection 402(a) of the Act, or paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of 
subsection 409(a) of the Act.
    You are authorized and directed to publish this determination in the 
Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary 
on December 8.