Waiver of Restriction on Providing Funds to the Palestinian Authority

Federal Register, Volume 78 Issue 36 (Friday, February 22, 2013)

Federal Register Volume 78, Number 36 (Friday, February 22, 2013)

Presidential Documents

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FR Doc No: 2013-04317

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Vol. 78

Friday,

No. 36

February 22, 2013

Part V

The President

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Presidential Determination No. 2013-05 of February 8, 2013--Waiver of Restriction on Providing Funds to the Palestinian Authority

Presidential Determination No. 2013-06 of February 11, 2013--Drawdown Under Section 506(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as Amended, for Chad and France To Support Their Efforts in Mali

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Presidential Determination No. 2013-05 of February 8, 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 Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (Public Law 112-175) (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, February 8, 2013.

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