[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 5 (Monday, February 8, 1999)]
[Pages 199-200]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Assistance to Iraqi Democratic Opposition Organizations

February 4, 1999

Presidential Determination No. 99-13

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject:  Designations Under the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United 
States, including under section 5 of the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 
(Public Law 105-338) (the ``Act''), I hereby determine that each of the 
following groups is a democratic opposition organization and that each 
satisfies the criteria set forth in section 5(c) of the Act: the Iraqi 
National Accord, the Iraqi National Congress, the Islamic Movement of 
Iraqi Kurdistan, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the Movement for 
Constitutional Monarchy, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, and the 
Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. I hereby designate 
each of these organizations as eligible to receive assistance under 
section 4 of the Act.
    You are authorized and directed to report this determination and 
designation to the Congress and arrange for its publication in the 
Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: This message was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
February 5.

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