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Memorandum for the Secretary of State
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For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary June 20, 2008

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

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June 20, 2008

Presidential Determination
No. 2008-21

SUBJECT: Waiving the Prohibition on the Use of Economic Support Funds with
Respect to Various Parties to the Rome Statute Establishing the
International Criminal Court

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of
the United States, including section 574 of the Foreign Operations, Export
Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law
109-102), as carried forward by the Revised Continuing Appropriations
Resolution, 2007 (Public Law 110-5), I hereby:

* Determine that it is important to the national interests of the United
States to waive the prohibition of aforementioned section 574(a) with
respect to Bolivia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Ecuador, Kenya, Mali, Mexico,
Namibia, Niger, Paraguay, Peru, Samoa, South Africa, and Tanzania; and

* Waive the prohibition of aforementioned section 574(a) with respect to
these countries.

You are authorized and directed to report this determination to the
Congress and to arrange for its publication in the Federal Register.

GEORGE W. BUSH

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