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Memorandum on Pakistan and India

October 27, 1999

Presidential Determination No. 2000-04

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Pakistan and India

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United 
States, including under title IX of the Department of Defense 
Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106-79), I hereby waive the 
sanctions 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:
(1)         with respect to India, insofar as such sanctions would 
            otherwise apply to activities of the Export-Import Bank, the 
            Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the Trade and 
            Development Agency; assistance under the ``International 
            Military Education and Training'' program; the making of any 
            loan or the providing of any credit to the Government of 
            India by any U.S. bank; assistance to the Asian Elephant 
            Conservation Fund, the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation 
            Fund, and the Indo-American Environmental Leadership 
            program; and any credit, credit guarantee, or other 
            financial assistance provided by the Department of 
            Agriculture to support the purchase of food or other 
            agricultural commodity; and
(2)         with respect to Pakistan, insofar as such sanctions would 
            otherwise apply to any credit, credit guarantee, or other 
            financial assistance provided by the Department of 
            Agriculture to support the purchase of food or other 
            agricultural commodity; and the making of any loan or the 
            providing of any credit to the Government of Pakistan by any 
            U.S. bank.
    You are hereby authorized and directed to report this determination 
to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the
Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton