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Memorandum for the Secretary of State
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For Immediate Release June 29, 2007

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

˙˙White House News



Office of the Press Secretary (Kennebunkport, Maine)

For Immediate Release June 29, 2007

June 28, 2007

Presidential Determination

No. 2007-23

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE

SUBJECT: Presidential Determination to Waive Military Coup-Related
Provision of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
Appropriations Act, 2006, as carried forward under the Revised Continuing
Appropriations Resolution, 2007, with respect to Pakistan

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the
United States, including section 534(j) of the Foreign Operations, Export
Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2006 (the "Act")(Public
Law 109 102), as carried forward under the Revised Continuing
Appropriations Resolution, 2007 (Public Law 110 5)(the "Continuing
Resolution"), and Public Law 107 57, as amended, I hereby determine and
certify, with respect to Pakistan, that a waiver of section 508 of the Act,
as carried forward under the Continuing Resolution:

(a) would facilitate the transition to democratic rule in Pakistan; and

(b) is important to United States efforts to respond to,

deter, or prevent acts of international terrorism.

Accordingly, I hereby waive, with respect to Pakistan, section 508 of such
Act, as carried forward by the Continuing Resolution.

You are authorized and directed to transmit this determination to the
Congress and to publish it in the Federal Register.

GEORGE W. BUSH

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