*Administration of Barack H. Obama, 2009 *

**Presidential Determination on the Lao People's Democratic Republic Under Section 2(b)(2) of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, as Amended **

*June 12, 2009 *

Presidential Determination No. 2009–21

*Memorandum for the Secretary of State *

*Subject:* Presidential Determination for The Lao People's Democratic Republic Under Section 2(b)(2) of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, as amended

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 2(b)(C) of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, as amended (12 U.S.C. 635(b)(2)(C)), I hereby determine that The Lao People's Democratic Republic has ceased to be a Marxist-Leninist country within the definition of such term in section 2(b)(2)(B)(i) of that Act.

You are authorized and directed to publish this determination in the *Federal Register*.

BARACK OBAMA

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., June 17]

NOTE: This Presidential determination was published in the *Federal Register* on June 18.

*Categories:* Communications to Federal Agencies : Laos, Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 Section 2(b)(2), as Amended, memorandum.

*Subjects:* Commerce, international : Export-Import Bank of 1945 Section 2(b)(2), as Amended; Laos : Export-Import Bank of 1945 Section 2(b)(2), as Amended.

*DCPD Number:* DCPD200900460.