For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
July 1, 2003
Presidential Determination
No. 2003-27
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE
SUBJECT: Waiving Prohibition on United States
Military
Assistance to Parties to the Rome Statute Establishing
the International Criminal Court
Consistent with the authority vested in me by section 2007 of the
American Servicemembers Protection Act of 2002, title II of Public Law
107-206 (22 U.S.C. 7421 et seq.), I hereby determine that:
(1) Gabon, the Gambia, Mongolia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and
Tajikistan have each entered into an agreement with the United States
pursuant to Article 98 of the Rome Statute preventing the International
Criminal Court from proceeding against U.S. personnel present in such
countries and waive the prohibition of section 2007(a) of the American
Servicemembers Protection Act with respect to these countries for as
long as such agreement remains in force;
(2) it is important to the national interest of the United States
to waive, until November 1, 2003, the prohibition of section 2007(a)
with respect to Afghanistan, Djibouti, Democratic Republic of Congo,
East Timor, Ghana, Honduras, and Romania, and waive that prohibition
with respect to these countries until that date; and
(3) it is important to the national interest of the United States
to waive, until January 1, 2004, the prohibition of section 2007(a)
with respect to Albania, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Botswana, Former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Mauritius, Nigeria, Panama, and Uganda,
and waive that prohibition with respect to these countries until that
date.
You are authorized and directed to report this determination to the
Congress, and to arrange for its publication in the Federal Register.
GEORGE W. BUSH
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