Presidential Document2021-22759
Presidential Determination and Certification With Respect to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008
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October 18, 2021
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October 8, 2021
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 198 (Monday, October 18, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 57525-57526]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-22759]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 86 , No. 198 / Monday, October 18, 2021 /
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The President
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Presidential Determination No. 2022-01 of October 8,
2021
Presidential Determination and Certification With
Respect to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
Pursuant to section 404 of the Child Soldiers
Prevention Act of 2008 (22 U.S.C. 2370c-1) (CSPA), I
hereby:
Determine that it is in the national interest of the
United States to waive the application of the
prohibition in section 404(a) of the CSPA with respect
to Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey; to waive in
part the application of the prohibition in section
404(a) of the CSPA with respect to the Democratic
Republic of the Congo to allow for the provision of
International Military Education and Training (IMET)
and Peacekeeping Operations (PKO) assistance, to the
extent that the CSPA would restrict such assistance or
support; to waive in part the application of the
prohibition in section 404(a) of the CSPA with respect
to Libya, Somalia, and Yemen to allow for the provision
of IMET and PKO assistance and support provided
pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 333, to the extent that the CSPA
would restrict such assistance or support; to waive in
part the application of the prohibition in section
404(a) of the CSPA with respect to South Sudan to allow
for the provision of PKO assistance, to the extent that
the CSPA would restrict such assistance; and, to waive
the application of the prohibition in section 404(a) of
the CSPA with respect to allowing for the issuance of
licenses for direct commercial sales related to other
United States Government assistance for the above
countries; and
Certify that the governments of the above countries are
taking effective and continuing steps to address the
problem of child soldiers.
Accordingly, I hereby waive such applications of
section 404(a) of the CSPA.
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You are authorized and directed to submit this
determination to the Congress, along with the
Memorandum of Justification, and to publish this
determination in the Federal Register.
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(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, October 8, 2021
[FR Doc. 2021-22759
Filed 10-15-21; 8:45 am]
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