Presidential Determination and Certification With Respect to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008, 69117-69118 [2020-24292]

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[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 211 (Friday, October 30, 2020)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 69117-69118]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-24292]



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Vol. 85

Friday,

No. 211

October 30, 2020

Part III





The President





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Presidential Determination No. 2021-01 of October 14, 2020--
Presidential Determination and Certification With Respect to the Child 
Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008


                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 85 , No. 211 / Friday, October 30, 2020 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Presidential Determination No. 2021-01 of October 14, 
                2020

                
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 under section 404(a) of the CSPA with 
                respect to Afghanistan, Cameroon, Iraq, Libya, and 
                Nigeria; 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 that 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 support provided pursuant to 10 
                U.S.C. 333, to the extent that 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 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 Yemen to allow for the provision of PKO and 
                IMET assistance and support provided pursuant to 10 
                U.S.C. 333, to the extent that 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 
                problems 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 14, 2020

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