[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 25 (Monday, June 21, 2004)]
[Pages 1070-1071]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Certification Concerning U.S. Participation in the United 
Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti Consistent With Section 2005 of 
the American Servicemembers' Protection Act

June 14, 2004

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Certification Concerning U.S. Participation in the United 
Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti Consistent with Section 2005 of 
the American Servicemembers' Protection Act

    Consistent with section 2005 of the American Servicemembers' 
Protection Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-206; 22 U.S.C. 7421 et seq.), 
concerning the participation of members of the Armed Forces of the 
United States in certain U.N. peacekeeping and peace enforcement 
operations, I hereby certify that members of the U.S. Armed Forces 
participating in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti 
(MINUSTAH) are without risk of criminal prosecution or other assertion 
of jurisdiction by the International Criminal Court because Haiti has 
entered into an agreement in accordance with Article 98 of the Rome 
Statute preventing the International Criminal Court from proceeding 
against members of the Armed Forces of the United States present in that 
country.
    You are authorized and directed to submit this certification to the 
Congress and arrange for its publication in the Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., June 17, 
2004]

Note: This memorandum was published in the Federal Register on June 18.

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