    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 17 (Monday, May 3, 1999)]
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    Memorandum on Assistance to Refugees Fleeing Kosovo

    April 29, 1999

    Presidential Determination No. 99-22

    Memorandum for the Secretary of State

    Subject: Determination Pursuant to Section 2(c)(1) of the Migration and
    Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, as Amended

        Pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance
    Act of 1962, as amended, 22 U.S.C. 2601(c)(1), I hereby determine that
    it is important to the national interest that up to $20 million be made
    available from the U.S. Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund
    to meet urgent and unexpected needs relating to the program under which
    the United States will provide refuge in the United States to refugees
    fleeing the Kosovo crisis.
        These funds may be used to meet the urgent and unexpected needs of
    refugees, displaced persons, victims of conflict, and other persons at
    risk due to the Kosovo crisis. These funds may be used, as appropriate,
    to provide contributions to international and nongovernmental
    organizations.
        You are authorized and directed to inform the appropriate committees
    of the Congress of this determination and the use of funds under this
    authority, and to arrange for the publication of this determination in
    the Federal Register.
                                                William J. Clinton

    Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary
    on April 30.