[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 37 (Monday, September 13, 2004)]
[Pages 1918-1919]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Presidential Determination With Respect to Foreign Governments' Efforts 
Regarding Trafficking in Persons

September 10, 2004

 Presidential Determination No. 2004-46

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Presidential Determination with Respect to Foreign Governments' 
Efforts Regarding Trafficking in Persons

    Consistent with section 110 of the Trafficking Victims Protection 
Act of 2000 (Division A of Public Law 106-386), as amended, (the 
``Act''), I hereby:
    Make the determination provided in section 110(d)(1)(A)(i) of the 
Act, with respect to Equatorial Guinea and Venezuela, not to provide 
certain funding for those countries' governments for fiscal year 2005, 
until such government complies with the minimum standards or makes 
significant efforts to bring itself into compliance, as may be 
determined by the Secretary of State in a report to the Congress 
pursuant to section 110(b) of the Act;
    Make the determination provided in section 110(d)(1)(A)(ii) of the 
Act, with respect to Burma, Cuba, Sudan, and North Korea, not to provide 
certain funding for those countries' governments for fiscal year 2005, 
until such government complies with the minimum standards or makes 
significant efforts to bring itself into compliance, as may be 
determined by the Secretary of State in a report to the Congress 
pursuant to section 110(b) of the Act;
    Make the determination provided in section 110(d)(3) of the Act, 
concerning the determinations of the Deputy Secretary of State with 
respect to Bangladesh, Ecuador, Guyana, and Sierra Leone;
    Determine, consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the Act, with 
respect to Equatorial Guinea, for the implementation of programs, 
projects, or activities regarding police professionalization, business 
responsibility, and promotion of the rule of law, that provision to 
Equatorial Guinea of the assistance described in section 110(d)(1)(A)(i) 
of the Act for such programs, projects, or activities would promote the 
purposes of the Act or is otherwise in the national interest of the 
United States;
    Determine, consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the Act, with 
respect to Sudan, for all programs, projects, or activities of 
assistance as may be necessary to implement a North/South peace accord 
and to address the crisis in Darfur, that provision to Sudan of the 
assistance described in section 110(d)(1)(B) of the
    Act for such programs, projects, or activities would promote the 
purposes of the Act or is otherwise in the national interest of the 
United States; and
    Determine, consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the Act, with 
respect to Venezuela, for all programs, projects, or activities designed 
to strengthen the democratic process, including strengthening of 
political parties and supporting electoral observation and monitoring, 
that provision to Venezuela of the assistance described in sections 
110(d)(1)(A)(i) and 110(d)(1)(B) of the Act for such programs, projects, 
or activities would promote the purposes of the Act or is otherwise in 
the national interest of the United States.
    The certification required by section 110(e) of the Act is provided 
herewith.
    You are hereby authorized and directed to submit this determination 
to the Congress, and to publish it in the Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush

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