[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 39 (Monday, October 4, 1999)]
[Page 1878]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Pakistan and India

September 30, 1999

Presidential Determination No. 99-44

Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Agriculture

Subject: Pakistan and India

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United 
States, including under section 902 of the India-Pakistan Relief Act of 
1998 (as enacted in Public Law 105-277), to the extent provided in that 
section, I hereby waive until October 21, 1999, the sanctions and 
prohibitions contained in sections 101 and 102 of the Arms Export 
Control Act, section 620E(e) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and 
section 2(b)(4) of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, insofar as such 
sanctions and prohibitions would otherwise apply to any credit, credit 
guarantee, or financial assistance provided by the Department of 
Agriculture to support the purchase of food or other agricultural 
commodity.
    The Secretary of State is hereby authorized and directed to report 
this determination to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in 
the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary 
on October 1.