[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 22 (Monday, June 5, 2000)]
[Page 1258]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Assistance for Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone

May 31, 2000

Presidential Determination No. 2000-20

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Presidential Determination on Assistance for Peacekeeping in 
Sierra Leone

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me as President, including under 
section 10(d)(1) of the United Nations Participation Act of 1945, as 
amended (22 U.S.C. 287 et seq.) (the ``Act''), I hereby determine that 
the furnishing, without regard to section 10(a) of the Act, of 
assistance covered by section 10 of the Act that is provided in support 
of peacekeeping efforts in Sierra Leone is important to the security 
interests of the United States.
    You are authorized and directed to report this determination to the 
Congress and to publish it in the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

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