The White House Briefing Room
March 5, 1999
Presidential Determination No. 99-16
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
March 5, 1999
March 4, 1999
Presidential Determination
No. 99-16
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE
SUBJECT: U.S. Contribution to KEDO: Certification Under Section
582(b) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and
Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1999, as contained in
Public Law 105-277
Pursuant to section 582(b) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing,
and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1999, as contained in Public Law
105-277, I hereby certify that:
(1)(A) the parties to the Agreed Framework have taken and continue
to take demonstrable steps to assure that progress is made on the
implementation of the January 1, 1992, Joint Declaration on the
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;
(B) the parties to the Agreed Framework have taken and continue to
take demonstrable steps to assure that progress is made on the
implementation of the North-South dialogue; and
(C) North Korea is complying with all provisions of the Agreed
Framework and with the Confidential Minute between North Korea and
the United States.
(2) North Korea is cooperating fully in the canning and safe storage
of all spent fuel from its graphite-moderated nuclear reactors;
(3) North Korea has not significantly diverted assistance provided
by the United States for purposes for which it was not intended; and
(4) the United States is fully engaged in efforts to impede North
Korea's development and export of ballistic missiles.
You are authorized and directed to report this certification to the
Congress and to arrange for its publication in the Federal Register.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
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