[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 45, Number 2 (Monday, January 19, 2009)]
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Memorandum on Waiving the Prohibition on the Use of Economic Support 
Funds with Respect to Various Parties to the Rome Statute Establishing 
the International Criminal Court

January 16, 2009

 Presidential Determination No. 2009-14

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Waiving the Prohibition on the Use of Economic Support Funds 
with Respect to Various Parties to the Rome Statute Establishing the 
International Criminal Court

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws 
of the United States, including section 671(b) of the Department of 
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2008 
(Division J, Public Law 110-161), I hereby:

 <bullet>    determine and report that it is important to the national 
            interests of the United States to waive the prohibition of 
            aforementioned section 671(a) with respect to Barbados, 
            Bolivia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Ecuador, Kenya, Mali, Mexico, 
            Namibia, Niger, Paraguay, Peru, Samoa, South Africa, St. 
            Vincent and the Grenadines, Tanzania, and Trinidad and 
            Tobago; and

 <bullet>    waive the prohibition of aforementioned section 671(a) with 
            respect to these countries.

    You are authorized and directed to report this determination to the 
Congress and to arrange for its publication in the Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush