For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 10, 2004
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
Presidential Determination No. 2004-46
SUBJECT: Presidential Determination with Respect to Foreign Governments' Efforts Regarding Trafficking in Persons
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 Equatorial Guinea and Venezuela, not to provide
certain funding for those countries' governments for fiscal year 2005,
until such government complies with the minimum standards or makes
significant efforts to bring itself 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)(1)(A)(ii) of the
Act, with respect to Burma, Cuba, Sudan, and North Korea, not to
provide certain funding for those countries' governments for fiscal
year 2005, until such government complies with the minimum standards or
makes significant efforts to bring itself 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)(3) of the Act,
concerning the determinations of the Deputy Secretary of State with
respect to Bangladesh, Ecuador, Guyana, and Sierra Leone;
Determine, consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the Act, with
respect to Equatorial Guinea, for the implementation of programs,
projects, or activities regarding police professionalization, business
responsibility, and promotion of the rule of law, that provision to
Equatorial Guinea of the assistance described in section
110(d)(1)(A)(i) of the Act for such programs, projects, or activities
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 Sudan, for all programs, projects, or activities of
assistance as may be necessary to implement a North/South peace accord
and to address the crisis in Darfur, that provision to Sudan of the
assistance described in section 110(d)(1)(B) of the
Act for such programs, projects, or activities 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, for all programs, projects, or activities
designed to strengthen the democratic process, including strengthening
of political parties and supporting electoral observation and
monitoring, that provision to Venezuela of the assistance described in
sections 110(d)(1)(A)(i) and 110(d)(1)(B) of the Act for such programs,
projects, or activities 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.
You are hereby authorized and directed to submit this determination
to the Congress, and to publish it in the Federal Register.
GEORGE W. BUSH
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