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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release April 26, 1997

April 24, 1997

                                     Presidential Determination
                                     No.         97-21

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE

  SUBJECT:       Use of Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining 
                 and Related Programs Account Funds for the U.S. 
                 Contribution to the Korean Peninsula Energy 
                 Development Organization (KEDO)

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 614(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, 22 U.S.C. 2364(a)(1), I hereby determine that it is important to the security interests of the United States to furnish up to $25 million in funds made available under heading "Nonpro liferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related Programs" in title II of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1997 (as enacted in Public Law 104-208) for the United States contribution to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization without regard to any provision of law within the scope of section 614(a)(1). I hereby authorize this contribution.

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

WILLIAM J. CLINTON

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