Presidential Determination With Respect To Foreign Governments' Efforts Regarding Trafficking In Persons, 63839-63840 [E8-25816]

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[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 209 (Tuesday, October 28, 2008)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 63839-63840]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-25816]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 209 / Tuesday, October 28, 2008 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Presidential Determination No. 2009-5 of October 17, 
                2008

                
Presidential Determination With Respect To 
                Foreign Governments' Efforts Regarding Trafficking In 
                Persons

                Memorandum for the Secretary of State

                Consistent with section 110 of the Trafficking Victims 
                Protection Act of 2000 (Division A of Public Law 106-
                386), as amended, (the ``Act''), I hereby:

                 Make the determination provided in section 
                110(d)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, with respect to Burma, the 
                Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), and 
                Syria, not to provide certain funding for those 
                countries' governments for Fiscal Year 2009, until such 
                government complies with the minimum standards or makes 
                significant efforts to bring itself into compliance, as 
                may be determined by the Secretary of State in a report 
                to the Congress pursuant to section 110(b) of the Act;



Make the determination provided in section 110(d)(1)(A)(ii) of the Act, 
with respect to Cuba and Iran not to provide certain funding for those 
countries' governments for Fiscal Year 2009, until such government complies 
with the minimum standards or makes significant efforts to bring itself 
into compliance, as may be determined by the Secretary of State in a report 
to the Congress pursuant to section 110(b) of the Act;



Make the determination provided in section 110(d)(3) of the Act, concerning 
the determination of the Secretary of State with respect to Moldova and 
Oman;



Determine, consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the Act, with respect to 
Algeria, Fiji, Kuwait, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan, 
that provision to these countries' governments of all programs, projects, 
or activities of assistance described in sections 110(d) (1)(A)(i) and 
110(d)(1)(B) of the Act would promote the purposes of the Act or is 
otherwise in the national interest of the United States;



Determine, consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the Act, with respect to 
the DPRK, that a partial waiver to allow funding for programs described in 
section 110(d)(1)(A)(i) of the Act that support the goals of the Six-Party 
talks would promote the purposes of the Act or is otherwise in the national 
interest of the United States; and



Determine, consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the Act, with respect to 
Iran, that a partial waiver to allow funding for educational and cultural 
exchange programs described in section 110(d)(1)(A)(ii) of the Act would 
promote the purposes of the Act or is otherwise in the national interest of 
the United States.













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                You are hereby authorized and directed to submit this 
                determination and the certification required by section 
                110(e) of the Act to the Congress and to publish this 
                determination in the Federal Register.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, October 17, 2008

[FR Doc. E8-25816
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