[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 50 (Monday, December 13, 2004)]
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Memorandum on Waiver of Restrictions on Providing Funds to the 
Palestinian Authority

December 8, 2004

Presidential Determination No. 2005-10

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Waiver of Restrictions on Providing Funds to the Palestinian 
Authority

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me as President by the 
Constitution and laws of the United States, including section 552(b) of 
the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 2004 (Div. D, Public Law 108-199) (the ``Act''), as 
carried forward under Public Law 108-309, as amended, I hereby certify 
that it is important to the national security interests of the United 
States to waive the provisions of section 552(a) of the Act, as carried 
forward, in order to provide funds appropriated to carry out chapter 4 
of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to the Ministry of 
Finance of the Palestinian Authority for budget support.
    You are authorized and directed to transmit this determination to 
the Congress, accompanied by a report in accordance with section 552(d) 
of the Act, and to publish the determination in the Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush