Memorandum on Certification Pursuant to Title II of the Dire Emergency Supplemental Appropriations and Transfers, Urgent Supplementals, and Correcting Enrollment Errors Act of 1989 (Public Law 101-45)

Presidential Determination No. 89-26

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Pursuant to Title II of the Dire Emergency Supplemental Appropriations and Transfers, Urgent Supplementals, and Correcting Enrollment Errors Act of 1989, Public Law 101-45 and for the reasons stated in the justification for this determination, I hereby determine that:

(1) the armed forces of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) have left Namibia and returned north of the 16th parallel in Angola in compliance with the Agreement Between the Governments of the People's Republic of Angola and the Republic of Cuba for the Termination of the International Mission of the Cuban Military Contingent (the Bilateral Agreement) signed at the United Nations on December 22, 1988, and the Agreement among the People's Republic of Angola, the Republic of Cuba, and the Republic of South Africa, signed at the United Nations on December 22, 1988;

(2) the United States has received explicit and reliable assurances from each of the parties to the Bilateral Agreement that all Cuban troops will be withdrawn from Angola by July 1, 1991, and that no Cuban troops will remain in Angola after that date; and

(3) the Secretary General of the United Nations has assured the United States that it is his understanding that all Cuban troops will be withdrawn from Angola by July 1, 1991, and that no Cuban troops will remain in Angola after that date.

You are directed to inform the appropriate committees of the Congress of this Determination and the obligation of funds under this authority and to provide them with copies of the justification explaining the basis for this Determination. You are further directed to publish this Determination in the Federal Register.

GEORGE BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, August 31, 1989.