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THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary
                      (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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For Immediate Release                                  February 24, 2000

                           February 24, 2000
                           Presidential Determination
                           No.       2000-15

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE

SUBJECT:       U.S. Contribution to the Korean Peninsula Energy
               Development Organization (KEDO):  Certification and
               Waiver Under the Heading "Nonproliferation,
               Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related Programs" in Title
               II of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and
               Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000, as enacted in
               Public Law 106-113

Pursuant to section 576(b) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000 (the Act), as enacted in the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106-113), I hereby certify that:

     (1) the parties to the Agreed Framework have taken and continue to
     take demonstrable steps to implement the Joint Declaration on
     Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in which the Government of
     North Korea has committed not to test, manufacture, produce,
     receive, possess, store, deploy, or use nuclear weapons, and not to
     possess nuclear reprocessing or uranium enrichment facilities;

     (2) the parties to the Agreed Framework have taken and continue to
     take demonstrable steps to pursue the North-South dialogue; and

     (3) North Korea is complying with all provisions of the Agreed
     Framework.

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 576(d) of the Act, I hereby determine that it is vital to the national security interests of the United States to furnish up to $15 million in funds made available under the heading "Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining, and Related Programs" of the Act, for assistance for KEDO, and therefore I hereby waive the requirement in section 576(b) to certify that:

     (4) North Korea has not diverted assistance provided by the United
     States for purposes for which it was not intended; and

     (5) North Korea is not seeking to develop or acquire the capability
     to enrich uranium, or any additional capability to reprocess spent
     nuclear fuel.

You are hereby authorized and directed to report this certification and waiver to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the Federal Register.

WILLIAM J. CLINTON

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