Presidential Determination and Certification With Respect to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008, 57525-57526 [2021-22759]

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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 198 (Monday, October 18, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 57525-57526]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-22759]




                        Presidential Documents 



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

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Title 3--
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. 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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