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respect to Burma. In addition, the
Department of State will use the
collection as a basis to conduct
informed consultations with U.S.
businesses to encourage and assist such
businesses to develop robust policies
and procedures to address any potential
adverse human rights, worker rights,
anti-corruption, environmental, or other
impacts resulting from their investments
and operations in Burma. The
Department of State will use the
collection of information about new
investment with the Myanmar Oil and
Gas Enterprise (MOGE) to track
investment that involves MOGE and to
identify investors with whom it may be
beneficial to have targeted consultation
on anti-corruption and human rights
policies. The public, including civil
society actors in Burma, may use
publicly available information resulting
from the collection to engage U.S.
businesses on their responsible
investment policies and procedures and
to monitor the Burmese government’s
management of revenues from
investment.
U.S. persons to whom this
requirement applies will be required to
submit a version of the report to the U.S.
Government for public release, from
which information considered in good
faith to be exempt from disclosure
under FOIA Exemption 4—i.e. trade
secrets or commercial or financial
information that is privileged or
confidential—may be withheld. The
Department of State will make this
version of the report publically available
in order to promote transparency with
respect to new U.S. investments in
Burma. In the past, the absence of
transparency or publicly available
information with respect to foreign
investment activities in Burma has
contributed to corruption and misuse of
public funds, the erosion of public trust,
and social unrest in ethnic minority
areas and has led to further human
rights abuses and repression by the
government and military. Public
disclosure of certain aspects of the
collection therefore will promote the
policy of transparency through new U.S.
investment, a key U.S. foreign policy
objective in Burma.
Burmese civil society groups,
particularly those representing ethnic
minority communities, have requested
that the Department of State make
public certain information obtained
through the collection on investments
purportedly made for the benefit of the
Burmese people, as a means of holding
their own government accountable.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San
Suu Kyi, leader of Burma’s democratic
opposition party and recently elected to
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a seat in Burma’s parliament, also
underscored the importance of
transparency in her recent remarks in
Bangkok, noting that she did not want
‘‘more investment to mean more
possibilities for corruption.’’ This was
among the most specific of the
recommendations she made to the
international community, stressing that
‘‘Transparency is very important if we
are going to avoid problems in the
future* * * So whatever investments,
governmental agreements, whatever aid
might be proposed, please make sure
that it is transparent, that the people of
Burma are in a position to understand
what has been done, and how and for
whom the benefits are intended.’’
Therefore public release of portions of
this collection is aimed at providing
civil society this type of information to
both ensure the transparency of U.S.
investment in Burma and to encourage
civil society to partner with their
government and U.S. companies
towards building responsible
investment, which ultimately promotes
U.S. foreign policy goals.
Dated: February 11, 2013.
Daniel Baer,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of
State.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice 8192]
Advisory Committee on Historical
Diplomatic Documentation; Notice of
Charter Renewal
The Advisory Committee on
Historical Diplomatic Documentation is
renewing its charter for a period of two
years. This Advisory Committee will
continue to make recommendations to
the Historian and the Department of
State on all aspects of the Department’s
program to publish the Foreign
Relations of the United States series as
well as on the Department’s
responsibility under statute (22 U.S.C.
4351, et seq.) to open its 30-year old and
older records for public review at the
National Archives and Records
Administration. The Committee consists
of nine members drawn from among
historians, political scientists,
archivists, international lawyers, and
other social scientists who are
distinguished in the field of U.S. foreign
relations.
Questions concerning the Committee
and the renewal of its Charter should be
directed to Stephen P. Randolph,
Executive Secretary, Advisory
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Committee on Historical Diplomatic
Documentation, Department of State,
Office of the Historian, Washington, DC,
20520, telephone (202) 663–1123 (email
history@state.gov).
Dated: February 14, 2013.
Colby Prevost,
Designated Federal Officer, Advisory
Committee on Historical Diplomatic
Documentation, Department of State.
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[Public Notice 8194]
Culturally Significant Objects Imported
for Exhibition Determinations: ‘‘Temple
and Tomb: Prehistoric Malta’’
Notice is hereby given of the
following determinations: Pursuant to
the authority vested in me by the Act of
October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C.
2459), Executive Order 12047 of March
27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and
Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 Stat.
2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 note, et
seq.), Delegation of Authority No. 234 of
October 1, 1999, Delegation of Authority
No. 236–3 of August 28, 2000 (and, as
appropriate, Delegation of Authority No.
257 of April 15, 2003), I hereby
determine that the objects to be
included in the exhibition ‘‘Temple and
Tomb: Prehistoric Malta,’’ imported
from abroad for temporary exhibition
within the United States, are of cultural
significance. The objects are imported
pursuant to a loan agreement with the
foreign owner or custodian. I also
determine that the exhibition or display
of the exhibit objects at the Institute for
the Study of the Ancient World, New
York University, New York, NY, from
on or about March 20, 2013, until on or
about July 7, 2013, and at possible
additional exhibitions or venues yet to
be determined, is in the national
interest. I have ordered that Public
Notice of these Determinations be
published in the Federal Register.
SUMMARY:
For
further information, including a list of
the exhibit objects, contact Julie
Simpson, Attorney-Adviser, Office of
the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of
State (telephone: 202–632–6467). The
mailing address is U.S. Department of
State, SA–5, L/PD, Fifth Floor (Suite
5H03), Washington, DC 20522–0505.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice 8192]
Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation; Notice
of Charter Renewal
The Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation is
renewing its charter for a period of two years. This Advisory Committee
will continue to make recommendations to the Historian and the
Department of State on all aspects of the Department's program to
publish the Foreign Relations of the United States series as well as on
the Department's responsibility under statute (22 U.S.C. 4351, et seq.)
to open its 30-year old and older records for public review at the
National Archives and Records Administration. The Committee consists of
nine members drawn from among historians, political scientists,
archivists, international lawyers, and other social scientists who are
distinguished in the field of U.S. foreign relations.
Questions concerning the Committee and the renewal of its Charter
should be directed to Stephen P. Randolph, Executive Secretary,
Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, Department
of State, Office of the Historian, Washington, DC, 20520, telephone
(202) 663-1123 (email history@state.gov).
Dated: February 14, 2013.
Colby Prevost,
Designated Federal Officer, Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic
Documentation, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2013-04009 Filed 2-20-13; 8:45 am]
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