Presidential Determination and Certification With Respect to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 213 (Monday, November 4, 2019)]

[Presidential Documents]

[Pages 59519-59520]

From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

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Vol. 84

Monday,

No. 213

November 4, 2019

Part III

The President

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Presidential Determination No. 2020-01 of October 18, 2019--

Presidential Determination and Certification With Respect to the Child

Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008

Presidential Determination No. 2020-02 of October 18, 2019--

Presidential Determination With Respect to the Efforts of Foreign

Governments Regarding Trafficking in Persons

Presidential Documents

Federal Register / Vol. 84 , No. 213 / Monday, November 4, 2019 /

Presidential Documents

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Title 3--

The President

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Presidential Determination No. 2020-01 of October 18,

2019

Presidential Determination and Certification With

Respect to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Pursuant to section 404 of the Child Soldiers

Prevention Act of 2008 (22 U.S.C. 2370c-1) (CSPA), I

hereby:

Determine that it is in the national interest of the

United States to waive the application of the

prohibition in section 404(a) of the CSPA with respect

to Afghanistan and Iraq; to waive the application of

the prohibition in section 404(a) of the CSPA with

respect to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to

allow for the provision of International Military

Education and Training (IMET) and Peacekeeping

Operations (PKO) assistance, to the extent the CSPA

to Afghanistan and Iraq; to waive the application of

the prohibition in section 404(a) of the CSPA with

respect to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to

allow for the provision of International Military

Education and Training (IMET) and Peacekeeping

Operations (PKO) assistance, to the extent the CSPA

would restrict such assistance or support; to waive the

application of the prohibition in section 404(a) of the

CSPA with respect to Mali to allow for the provision of

IMET and PKO assistance, the issuance of licenses for

direct commercial sales of military equipment, and

Department of Defense (DOD) support provided pursuant

to 10 U.S.C. 333, to the extent the CSPA would restrict

such assistance or support; to waive the application of

the prohibition in section 404(a) of the CSPA with

respect to Somalia to allow for the provision of IMET

and PKO assistance and DOD support provided pursuant to

10 U.S.C. 333, to the extent the CSPA would restrict

such assistance or support; to waive the application of

the prohibition in section 404(a) of the CSPA with

respect to South Sudan to allow for the provision of

PKO assistance, to the extent the CSPA would restrict

such assistance or support; and, to waive the

application of the prohibition in section 404(a) of the

CSPA with respect to Yemen to allow for the provision

of PKO assistance and DOD support provided pursuant to

10 U.S.C. 333, to the extent the CSPA would restrict

such assistance or support; and

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such assistance or support; and, to waive the

application of the prohibition in section 404(a) of the

CSPA with respect to Yemen to allow for the provision

of PKO assistance and DOD support provided pursuant to

10 U.S.C. 333, to the extent the CSPA would restrict

such assistance or support; and

Certify that the governments of the above countries are

taking effective and continuing steps to address the

problem of child soldiers.

Accordingly, I hereby waive such applications of

section 404(a) of the CSPA.

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You are authorized and directed to submit this

determination to the Congress, along with the

Memorandum of Justification, and to publish the

determination in the Federal Register.

(Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, October 18, 2019

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