[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 52 (Monday, January 3, 2000)]
[Page 2669]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Providing Disaster Assistance to Venezuela

December 23, 1999

Presidential Determination No. 2000-09

Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense

Subject: Drawdown Under Section 506(a)(2) of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961, as Amended, to Provide Emergency Disaster Relief Assistance to 
Venezuela

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 506(a)(2) of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, 22 U.S.C. 2318(a)(2) (``the 
Act''), I hereby determine that it is in the national interest of the 
United States to draw down articles and services from the inventory and 
resources of the Department of Defense, for the purpose of providing 
international disaster relief assistance to Venezuela.
    I therefore direct the drawdown of up to $20 million of articles and 
services from the inventory and resources of the Department of Defense 
for the Government of Venezuela for the purposes and under the 
authorities of chapter 9 of part I of the Act.
    The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to report this 
determination to the Congress immediately and to arrange for its 
publication in the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

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