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Bill Clinton: “I hereby direct the Secretary of the Treasury to take appropriate action to suspend the application of the sanctions…”

On the recordDecember 26, 1995
I hereby direct the Secretary of the Treasury to take appropriate action to suspend the application of the sanctions imposed on Serbia and Montenegro.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Memorandum Suspending Sanctions Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)

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