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Memorandum on Withholding Assistance to the Government of Chad

September 29, 1998

Presidential Determination No. 98-38

Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the 
Administrator of the Agency for International Development

Subject: Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 582(a) of the 
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 1998, on Withholding Assistance to the Government of 
Chad

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 582(a) of the 
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 1998 (the ``Act''), I hereby:
(1)         determine and certify that the Government of the Republic of 
            Chad is violating a sanction against Libya imposed pursuant 
            to United Nations Security Council Resolution 748; and
(2)         direct that funds not yet obligated that were allocated for 
            Chad under section 653(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
            1961 (the ``FAA'') out of appropriations in the Act for 
            programs under chapters 4 and 5 of Part II of the FAA shall 
            be withheld from obligation and expenditure for Chad.
    The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to report this 
determination to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the 
Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton