[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 11 (Monday, March 16, 1998)]
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Memorandum on a Military Drawdown for Jordan

March 13, 1998

Presidential Determination No. 98-19

Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense

Subject: Military Drawdown for Jordan

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the laws and Constitution 
of the United States, including Title III (Military Assistance) of the 
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 1998 (Public Law 105-118) (``Title III''), I hereby 
direct the drawdown of defense articles from the stocks of the 
Department of Defense, defense services of the Department of Defense, 
and military education and training of an aggregate value of $25,000,000 
under the authority of the fifth proviso under the heading ``Foreign 
Military Financing Program'' in Title III for Jordan for the purposes of 
part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
    The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to report this 
determination to the Congress and to publish it in the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton