[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 1 (Monday, January 5, 2004)]
[Pages 8-9]
[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

December 30, 2003

 Presidential Determination No. 2004-17

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:
 <bullet>    Determine that Belize, Former Yugoslav Republic of 
            Macedonia, Panama, and Fiji 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
 <bullet>    Waive the prohibition of section 2007(a) of the Act with 
            respect to these countries for as long as such agreement 
            remains in force.
    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

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