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

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 198 (Monday, October 18, 2021)]

[Presidential Documents]

[Pages 57525-57526]

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Federal Register / Vol. 86 , No. 198 / Monday, October 18, 2021 /

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The President

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Presidential Determination No. 2022-01 of October 8,

2021

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 Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey; to waive in

part 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 that the CSPA would restrict such assistance or

support; to waive in part the application of the

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

to Libya, Somalia, and Yemen to allow for the provision

of IMET and PKO assistance and support provided

pursuant to 10 U.S.C

stance, to the

extent that the CSPA would restrict such assistance or

support; to waive in part the application of the

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

to Libya, Somalia, and Yemen to allow for the provision

of IMET and PKO assistance and support provided

pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 333, to the extent that the CSPA

would restrict such assistance or support; to waive in

part 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 that

the CSPA would restrict such assistance; and, to waive

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

the CSPA with respect to allowing for the issuance of

licenses for direct commercial sales related to other

United States Government assistance for the above

countries; 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 this

determination in the Federal Register.

(Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, October 8, 2021

[FR Doc. 2021-22759

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