Memorandum from the President for the Secretary of State: Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) (9/28/00)
                              THE WHITE HOUSE

                       Office of the Press Secretary

_________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release                          September 28, 2000

                                 September 28, 2000


                                   Presidential Determination
                                   No.      2000-31




MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE

SUBJECT:       Transfer of Economic Support Funds, Peacekeeping
               Operations Funds, and Foreign Military Financing
               Funds to the International Organizations and
               Programs Account and Use of Funds to Provide a
               U.S. Contribution of $29,407,000 to the Korean
               Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO)


Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 610(a) of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (the "Act"), I hereby determine that it
is necessary for the purposes of the Act that:

?    $2.466 million in funds made available pursuant to chapter 6 of part
II of the Act for fiscal year 2000;

?    $2 million in funds made available pursuant to chapter 4 of part II of
the Act for prior fiscal years; and

?    $1.534 million in funds made available pursuant to section 23 of the
Arms Export Control Act, as amended, for fiscal year 2000,

be transferred to, and consolidated with, funds made available for chapter
3 of part I of the Act.

In addition, pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 614(a)(1) of
the Act, I hereby determine that it is important to the security interests
of the United States to furnish up to:

?    $20,307,000 in funds made available under the title II
(Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining, and Related Programs) of the
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations
Act, 2000, as enacted in Public Law 106-113; and

?    $9.1 million in funds made available pursuant to chapter 3 of part I
of the Act for fiscal year 2000, comprised of $6 million in funds
transferred pursuant to this determina-tion and $3.1 million in funds
otherwise available pursuant to chapter 3 of part I of the Act,

for assistance to KEDO without regard to any provision of law within the
scope of section 614(a)(1) of the Act.  I hereby authorize the furnishing
of this assistance.

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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