[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 13 (Monday, March 31, 2003)]
[Pages 357-358]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Assistance for Iraq

March 24, 2003

 Presidential Determination No. 2003-18

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Assistance for Iraq

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 507 of the Foreign 
Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 
2003, Division E of the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003 
(Public Law 108-7), I hereby determine that the provision of assistance 
or other financing for Iraq is important to the national security 
interests of the United States. I hereby authorize the furnishing of 
this assistance or other financing.

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    You are hereby authorized and directed to transmit this 
determination to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the 
Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush