Memorandum on Withholding Assistance to the Government of Chad

Presidential Determination No. 98-38

Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Administrator of the Agency for International Development

Subject: Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 582(a) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1998, on Withholding Assistance to the Government of Chad

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 582(a) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1998 (the "Act"), I hereby: (1) determine and certify that the Government of the Republic of Chad is violating a sanction against Libya imposed pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 748; and (2) direct that funds not yet obligated that were allocated for Chad under section 653(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (the "FAA") out of appropriations in the Act for programs under chapters 4 and 5 of Part II of the FAA shall be withheld from obligation and expenditure for Chad.

The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to report this determination to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the Federal Register.

William J. Clinton