Memorandum on the Assistance Program for Russia

Presidential Determination No. 96-31

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Assistance Program for Russia

Pursuant to section 577 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1994 (Public Law 103-87), I hereby certify that all of the armed forces of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States have withdrawn from Latvia and Estonia or that the status of those armed forces has been otherwise resolved by mutual agreement of the parties.

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

William J. Clinton