[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 44 (Monday, November 6, 2000)]
[Pages 2671-2672]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Determination To Waive Attachment Provisions Relating to 
Blocked Property of Terrorist-List States

October 28, 2000

 Presidential Determination No. 2000-31

Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury

Subject: Determination to Waive Attachment Provisions Relating to 
Blocked Property of Terrorist-List States

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
laws of the United States of America, including section 2002(f) of H.R. 
3244, ``Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000,'' 
(approved October 28, 2000), I hereby determine that subsection (f)(1) 
of section 1610 of title 28, United States Code, which provides that any 
property with respect to which financial transactions are prohibited or 
regulated pursuant to section 5(b) of the Trading with the Enemy Act (50 
U.S. App. 5(b), section 620(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2370(a)), sections 202 and 203 of the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1702), and proclamations, orders, 
regulations, and licenses issued pursuant thereto, be subject to 
execution or attachment in aid of execution of any judgment relating to 
a claim for which a foreign state claiming such property is not immune 
from the jurisdiction of courts of the United States or of the States 
under section 1605(a)(7) of title 28, United States Code, would impede 
the ability of the President to conduct foreign policy in the interest 
of national security and would, in particular, impede the effectiveness 
of such prohibitions and regulations upon financial transactions. 
Therefore, pursuant to section 2002(f) of H.R. 3244, the ``Victim's of 
Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000,'' I hereby waive 
subsection (f)(1) of section 1610 of title 28, United States Code, in 
the interest of

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national security. This waiver, together with the amendment of 
subsection (f)(2) of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and the repeal 
of the subsection (b) of section 117 of the Treasury and General 
Government Appropriations Act, 1999, supersedes my prior waiver of the 
requirements of subsections (a) and (b) of said section 117, executed on 
October 21, 1998.
    The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to publish this 
determination in the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton