[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 222 (Wednesday, November 18, 2015)]
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[FR Doc No: 2015-29569]


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                Presidential Determination No. 2016-02 of November 13, 
                2015

                
Distribution of Department of Defense Funded 
                Humanitarian Assistance in Syria

                Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States, 
                including section 2249a(b)(1)(B) of title 10, United 
                States Code, I hereby:

                Determine that section 2249a(a) of title 10, United 
                States Code, would impede the distribution of urgently 
                needed humanitarian assistance in Syria to alleviate 
                the current refugee crisis, as well as other United 
                States Government objectives in the Middle East for 
                stability and humanitarian relief; and

                Waive the prohibition in section 2249a(a) of title 10, 
                United States Code, for humanitarian reasons and to the 
                extent necessary to allow the Department of Defense to 
                carry out the purposes of section 2561 of title 10, 
                United States Code, for the distribution of 
                humanitarian assistance into Syria.

                You are authorized and directed to publish this 
                determination in the Federal Register.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, November 13, 2015

[FR Doc. 2015-29569
Filed 11-17-15; 8:45 am]
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