FR 2008/04/08-1092

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**Determination To Waive Military Coup-Related Provision of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2008, With Respect to Pakistan**

**Memorandum for the Secretary of State**

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, including section 1(b) of Public Law 107-57, as amended, I hereby determine and certify, with respect to Pakistan, that a waiver of section 608 of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2008 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008, Public Law 110-161; the “Act”):

(a) would facilitate the transition to democratic rule in Pakistan; and

(b) is important to U.S. efforts to respond to, deter, or prevent acts of international terrorism.

Accordingly, I hereby waive, with respect to Pakistan, section 608 of such Act.

You are authorized and directed to transmit this determination to the Congress and to publish it in the *Federal Register* .

THE WHITE HOUSE,