  {"id":199344,"date":"2009-07-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=199344"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:46:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:46:07","slug":"auto-insert-199344","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-199344\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiver of restriction on providing funds to the Palestinian Authority &#8211; Presidential Determinatiaon &#8211; Obama memorandum for Secretary of State\/Non-UN document"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>THE WHITE HOUSE<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Office of the Press Secretary<br \/>\n________________________________________________________<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;July 8, 2009<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Presidential Determination<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>No. 2009-23<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" background=\"#000000\" width=\"3px\" style=\"text-align:center;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"3\" valign=\"center\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:2pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;border-color:#000000;border-style:solid;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">SUBJECT: Waiver of Restriction on Providing Funds to the Palestinian Authority<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7040(b) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2009 (Division H, Public Law 111-8) (the &quot;Act&quot;), I hereby certify that it is important to the national security interests of the United States to waive the provisions of section 7040(a) of the Act, in order to provide funds appropriated to carry out chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act, as amended, to the Palestinian Authority.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:9px;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">You are directed to transmit this determination to the Congress, with a report pursuant to section 7040(d) of the Act, and to publish the determination in the Federal Register.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">BARACK OBAMA\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:6px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><i>doclink: <\/i><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the_press_office\/Memorandum-from-the-President-to-the-Secretary-of-State-Concerning-the-Palestinian-Authority\/\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:6px;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><i>http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the_press_office\/Memorandum-from-the-President-to-the-Secretary-of-State-Concerning-the-Palestinian-Authority\/<\/i><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; 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