    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 43, Number 42 (Monday, October 22, 2007)]
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    Presidential Determination Relating to Assistance for Saudi Arabia

    October 19, 2007

     Presidential Determination No. 2008-5

    Memorandum for the Secretary of State

    Subject: Presidential Determination Relating to Assistance for Saudi
    Arabia

        Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the
    laws of the United States, including section 582 of the Foreign
    Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act,
    2006 (Public Law 109-102), and that section as carried forward by the
    Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007 (Public Law 110-5),
    and the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2008 (Public Law 110-92),
    I hereby certify that Saudi Arabia is cooperating with efforts to combat
    international terrorism and that the proposed assistance will help
    facilitate that effort, and hereby waive the application of such
    sections.
        You are authorized and directed to report this certification to the
    Congress and publish it in the Federal Register.
                                                    George W. Bush