Waiver of Restriction on Providing Funds to the Palestinian Authority

Federal Register, Volume 78 Issue 152 (Wednesday, August 7, 2013)

Federal Register Volume 78, Number 152 (Wednesday, August 7, 2013)

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FR Doc No: 2013-19217

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Presidential Determination No. 2013-11 of July 26, 2013

Waiver of Restriction on Providing Funds to the Palestinian Authority

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7040(b) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2012 (Division I, Public Law 112-

74) (the ``Act'') as carried forward by the Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (Division F, Public Law 113-6) (the ``CR''), I hereby certify that it is important to the national security interests of the United States to waive the provisions of section 7040(a) of the Act as carried forward by the CR, in order to provide funds appropriated to carry out chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act, as amended, to the Palestinian Authority.

You are directed to transmit this determination to the Congress, with a report pursuant to section 7040(d) of the Act as carried forward by the CR, and to publish this determination in the Federal Register.

(Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, July 26, 2013

FR Doc. 2013-19217

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