Presidential Determination and Certification With Respect to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008

Citation84 FR 59519
Record Number2019-24195
Published date04 November 2019
SectionPresidential Documents
CourtExecutive Office Of The President
Federal Register, Volume 84 Issue 213 (Monday, November 4, 2019)
[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 213 (Monday, November 4, 2019)]
                [Presidential Documents]
                [Pages 59519-59520]
                From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
                [FR Doc No: 2019-24195]
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                Vol. 84
                Monday,
                No. 213
                November 4, 2019
                Part IIIThe President-----------------------------------------------------------------------
                Presidential Determination No. 2020-01 of October 18, 2019--
                Presidential Determination and Certification With Respect to the Child
                Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008
                Presidential Determination No. 2020-02 of October 18, 2019--
                Presidential Determination With Respect to the Efforts of Foreign
                Governments Regarding Trafficking in Persons
                 Presidential Documents
                Federal Register / Vol. 84 , No. 213 / Monday, November 4, 2019 /
                Presidential Documents
                ___________________________________________________________________
                Title 3--
                The President
                [[Page 59519]]
                 Presidential Determination No. 2020-01 of October 18,
                 2019
                
                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 Afghanistan and Iraq; 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 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 Mali to allow for the provision of
                 IMET and PKO assistance, the issuance of licenses for
                 direct commercial sales of military equipment, and
                 Department of Defense (DOD) support provided pursuant
                 to 10 U.S.C. 333, to the extent 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 DOD support provided pursuant to
                 10 U.S.C. 333, to the extent 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 the CSPA would restrict
                 such assistance or support; 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 assistance and DOD support provided pursuant to
                 10 U.S.C. 333, to the extent 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
                 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 the
                 determination in the Federal Register.
                
                
                 (Presidential Sig.)
                 THE WHITE HOUSE,
                 Washington, October 18, 2019
                [FR Doc. 2019-24195
                Filed 11-1-19; 11:15 am]
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