[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 5 (Monday, February 7, 2000)]
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Memorandum on Assistance for the Independent States of the Former Soviet 
Union

February 1, 2000

Presidential Determination No. 2000-11

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Assistance Program for the Independent States of the Former 
Soviet Union

    Pursuant to subsection 517(b) in title V of the Foreign Operations, 
Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public 
Law 106-113), I hereby determine that it is in the national security 
interest of the United States to make available funds appropriated under 
the heading ``Assistance for the Independent States of the Former Soviet 
Union'' in title II of that Act without regard to the restriction in 
that subsection.
    You are directed to report this determination to the Congress and 
publish it in the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton