[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 15 (Monday, April 13, 1998)]
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Memorandum on the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization

April 3, 1998

Presidential Determination No. 98-20

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 me 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 $30 million in funds made available under 
the heading ``Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related 
Programs'' in title II of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and 
Related Programs Appropriation Act, 1998 (Public Law 105-118) 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 the furnishing of such assistance.
    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

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