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The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release

Presidential Memorandum--Providing Funds to the Palestinian Authority

Presidential Determination
No.        2011-1
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE
 
SUBJECT: Waiver of Restriction on Providing Funds to the Palestinian Authority
 
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, 2010 (Division F, Public Law 111-117), as carried forward by the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011, as enacted September 30, 2010 (together, the "Act"), 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.
 
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.
 
BARACK OBAMA