[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 196 (Tuesday, October 11, 2011)]
[Presidential Documents]
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[FR Doc No: 2011-26333]
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Presidential Determination No. 2011-18 of September 30,
2011
Presidential Determination With Respect to
Foreign Governments' Efforts Regarding Trafficking in
Persons
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
Consistent with section 110 of the Trafficking Victims
Protection Act of 2000 (Division A of Public Law 106-
386), as amended (the ``Act''), I hereby:
Make the determination provided in section
110(d)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, with respect to Burma, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea,
and Zimbabwe, not to provide certain funding for those
countries' governments for Fiscal Year 2012, until such
governments comply with the minimum standards or make
significant efforts to bring themselves into
compliance, as may be determined by the Secretary of
State in a report to the Congress pursuant to section
110(b) of the Act;
Make the determination provided in section
110(d)(l)(A)(ii) of the Act, with respect to Cuba, the
Democratic People's Republic of North Korea (DPRK),
Eritrea, Iran, Madagascar, and Venezuela, not to
provide certain funding for those countries'
governments for Fiscal Year 2012, until such
governments comply with the minimum standards or make
significant efforts to bring themselves into
compliance, as may be determined by the Secretary of
State in a report to the Congress pursuant to section
110(b) of the Act;
Determine, consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the
Act, with respect to Algeria, the Central African
Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya,
Mauritania, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Saudi Arabia,
Sudan, Turkmenistan, and Yemen that provision to these
countries' governments of all programs, projects, or
activities of assistance described in sections
110(d)(l)(A)(i)-(ii) and 110(d)(l)(B) of the Act would
promote the purposes of the Act or is otherwise in the
national interest of the United States;
Determine, consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the
Act, with respect to Burma, that a partial waiver to
allow funding for programs described in section
110(d)(1)(A)(i) of the Act to support government labs
and offices that work to combat infectious disease and
to support government participation in nongovernmental
organization-run civil society programs and Association
of South East Asian Nations programs addressing
vulnerable populations would promote the purposes of
the Act or is otherwise in the national interest of the
United States;
Determine, consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the
Act, with respect to Cuba and Venezuela, that a partial
waiver to allow funding for educational and cultural
exchange programs described in section 110(d)(1)(A)(ii)
of the Act that are related to democracy or the rule of
law programming would promote the purposes of the Act
or is otherwise in the national interest of the United
States;
Determine, consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the
Act, with respect to Iran, that a partial waiver to
allow funding for educational and cultural exchange
programs described in section 110(d)(1)(A)(ii) of the
Act would promote the purposes of the Act or is
otherwise in the national interest of the United
States;
Determine, consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the
Act, with respect to the Democratic Republic of the
Congo, that assistance and programs described in
section 110(d)(1)(A)(i) and 110(d)(1)(B) of the Act,
with the exception
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of Foreign Military Sales and Foreign Military
Financing, would promote the purposes of the Act or is
otherwise in the national interest of the United
States;
Determine, consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the
Act, with respect to Venezuela, that a partial waiver
to allow funding for programs described in section
110(d)(1)(A)(i) of the Act to support programs designed
to strengthen the democratic process in Venezuela would
promote the purposes of the Act or is otherwise in the
national interest of the United States;
Determine, consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the
Act, with respect to Equatorial Guinea, that a partial
waiver to allow funding for programs described in
section 110(d)(1)(A)(i) of the Act to support programs
to study and combat the spread of infectious diseases
and to advance sustainable natural resource management
and biodiversity would promote the purposes of the Act
or is otherwise in the national interest of the United
States;
Determine, consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the
Act, with respect to Equatorial Guinea, that assistance
described in section 110(d)(1)(B) of the Act would
promote the purposes of the Act or is otherwise in the
national interest of the United States;
Determine, consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the
Act, with respect to Zimbabwe, that a partial waiver to
allow funding for programs described in section
110(d)(l)(A)(i) of the Act for assistance for victims
of trafficking in persons or to combat such
trafficking, and for programs to support the promotion
of health, good governance, education, agriculture and
food security, poverty reduction, livelihoods, family
planning, and macroeconomic growth including
anticorruption, and programs that would have a
significant adverse effect on vulnerable populations if
suspended, would promote the purposes of the Act or is
otherwise in the national interest of the United
States;
And determine, consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the
Act, with respect to Venezuela and Zimbabwe, that
assistance described in section 110(d)(1)(B) of the
Act, which:
(1) is a regional program, project, or activity
under which the total benefit to Venezuela or Zimbabwe
does not exceed 10 percent of the total value of such
program, project, or activity; or
(2) has as its primary objective the addressing of
basic human needs, as defined by the Department of the
Treasury with respect to other, existing legislative
mandates concerning U.S. participation in the
multilateral development banks; or
(3) is complementary to or has similar policy
objectives to programs being implemented bilaterally by
the United States Government; or
(4) has as its primary objective the improvement of
Venezuela or Zimbabwe's legal system, including in
areas that impact Venezuela or Zimbabwe's ability to
investigate and prosecute trafficking cases or
otherwise improve implementation of its anti-
trafficking policy, regulations or legislation; or
(5) is engaging a government, international
organization, or civil society organization, and seeks
as its primary objective(s) to: (a) increase efforts to
investigate and prosecute trafficking in persons
crimes; (b) increase protection for victims of
trafficking through better screening, identification,
rescue or removal; aftercare (shelter, counseling)
training and reintegration; or (c) expand prevention
efforts through education and awareness campaigns
highlighting the dangers of trafficking or training and
economic empowerment of populations clearly at risk of
falling victim to trafficking, would promote the
purposes of the Act or is otherwise in the national
interest of the United States.
The certification required by section 110(e) of the Act
is provided herewith.
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You are hereby authorized and directed to submit this
determination to the Congress, and to publish it in the
Federal Register.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, September 30, 2011
[FR Doc. 2011-26333
Filed 10-7-11; 8:45 am]
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