*Administration of Barack Obama, 2016 *

**Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 570(a) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1997 **

*December 2, 2016 *

Presidential Determination No. 2017–04

*Memorandum for the Secretary of State *

*Subject: *Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 570(a) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1997

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 570(a) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1997 (Public Law 104–208) (the "Act"), I hereby determine and certify, pursuant to section 570(a) of the Act, that Burma has made measurable and substantial progress in improving human rights practices and implementing democratic government.

You are authorized and directed to provide this determination and the accompanying Memorandum of Justification to the Congress and to publish the determination in the *Federal Register. *

BARACK OBAMA

NOTE: An original was not available for verification of the content of this memorandum.

*Categories:* Communications to Federal Agencies : Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1997, section 570 (a), memorandum*.*

*Subjects:* Burma : Democracy efforts; Burma : Human rights issues; Foreign policy, U.S. : Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1997.

*DCPD Number:* DCPD201600814.