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

February 28, 2008

 Presidential Determination No. 2008-13

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

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

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including section 650(b) of 
the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 2008 (Division J, Public Law 110-161) (the ``Act''), 
I hereby certify that it is important to the national security interests 
of the United States to waive the provisions of section 650(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, as amended, to the 
Palestinian Authority.
    You are directed to transmit this determination to the Congress, 
with a report pursuant to section 650(d) of the Act, and to publish the 
determination in the Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush