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Federal Register Presidential Documents

Vol. 73, No. 46

Friday, March 7, 2008

Title 3— Presidential Determination No. 2008–13 of February 28, 2008

The President Waiver of Restriction on Providing Funds to the Palestinian

Authority

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the

laws of the United States of America, including section 650(b) of the Depart-
ment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations
Act, 2008 (Division J, Public Law 110–161) (the ‘‘Act’’), I hereby certify
that it is important to the national security interests of the United States
to waive the provisions of section 650(a) of the Act, in order to provide
funds appropriated to carry out chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961, as amended, to the Palestinian Authority.
You are directed to transmit this determination to the Congress, with a
report pursuant to section 650(d) of the Act, and to publish the determination
in the Federal Register.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, February 28, 2008.

[FR Doc. 08–990

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