Memorandum on Assistance Program for Independent States of the Former Soviet Union

Presidential Determination No. 94-6

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Pursuant to section 560 and 577 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1994 (Titles I-V of Public Law 103-87) (the "Act"), I hereby determine that it is in the national interest of the United States to make available funds appropriated under the Act without regard to the restriction contained in section 560(g) of the Act, and certify that Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States continue to make substantial progress toward the withdrawal of their armed forces from Latvia and Estonia.

You are authorized and directed to notify the Congress of this determination and certification, and to publish it in the Federal Register.

WILLIAM J. CLINTON

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, December 6, 1993.