[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 28 (Monday, July 18, 2005)]
[Pages 1163-1164]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Waiver of Restrictions on Providing Funds to the 
Palestinian Authority

July 14, 2005

 Presidential Determination No. 2005-29

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 550(b) of 
the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 2005 (Div. D, Public Law 108-447) (the ``Act''), I 
hereby certify that it is important to the national security interests 
of the United States to waive the provisions of section 550(a) of the 
Act, 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 in direct assistance for use on new 
projects in Gaza.
    You are authorized and directed to transmit this determination to 
the Congress, accompanied by a report in accordance with

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section 550(d) of the Act, and to publish the determination in the 
Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush