[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 45 (Monday, November 10, 2003)]
[Pages 1522-1523]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum Waiving Prohibition on United States Military Assistance to 
Parties to the Rome Statute Establishing the International Criminal 
Court

November 1, 2003

Presidential Determination No. 2004-07

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Waiving Prohibition on United States Military Assistance to 
Parties to the Rome Statute Establishing the International Criminal 
Court

    Consistent with the authority vested in me by section 2007 of the 
American Servicemembers' Protection Act of 2002 (the ``Act''), title II 
of Public Law 107-206 (22 U.S.C. 7421 et seq.), I hereby determine that:
    Antigua and Barbuda, Botswana, East Timor, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, 
and Uganda have each entered into an agreement with the United States 
pursuant to Article 98 of the Rome Statute preventing the International 
Criminal Court from proceeding against U.S. personnel present in such 
countries, and waive the prohibition of section 2007(a) of the Act with 
respect to these countries for as long as such agreement remains in 
force; and
    It is important to the national interest of the United States to 
waive, for a period of 6 months from the date of this determination, the 
prohibition of section 2007(a) with respect to Romania, and waive that 
prohibition with respect to this country for that period.
    You are authorized and directed to report this determination to the 
Congress, and to arrange for its publication in the Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., November 7, 
2003]

Note: This memorandum was published in the Federal Register on November 
10.

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