[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 68 (Monday, April 12, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 19080]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-07474]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice: 11401]


Certification Under Section 1704(A)(2) of the Sudan Claims 
Resolution Act Relating to the Receipt of Funds for Settlement of 
Claims Against Sudan

    By virtue of the authority vested in me as Secretary of State, 
including pursuant to section 1704(a)(2) of the Sudan Claims Resolution 
Act (Title XVII, Division FF, Pub. L. 116-260) (the ``Act''), I hereby 
certify that:
    (A) The August 12, 1993, designation of Sudan as a state sponsor of 
terrorism has been formally rescinded;
    (B) Sudan has made final payments with respect to the private 
settlement of the claims of victims of the U.S.S. COLE attack; and
    (C) the United States Government has received funds pursuant to the 
United States-Sudan Claims Settlement Agreement that are sufficient to 
ensure:
    (i) Payment of the agreed private settlement amount for the death 
of a citizen of the United States who was an employee of the United 
States Agency for International Development in Sudan on January 1, 
2008;
    (ii) meaningful compensation for claims of citizens of the United 
States (other than individuals described in section 1707(a)(1) of the 
Act) for wrongful death or physical injury in cases arising out of the 
August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States embassies located in 
Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and
    (iii) funds for compensation through a fair process to address 
compensation for terrorism-related claims of foreign nationals for 
wrongful death or physical injury arising out of the events referred to 
in clause (ii).
    This certification shall be published in the Federal Register and 
shall be transmitted, along with the accompanying Memorandum of 
Justification, to the appropriate congressional committees.

    Dated: March 20, 2021.
Antony J. Blinken,
Secretary of State.
[FR Doc. 2021-07474 Filed 4-9-21; 8:45 am]
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