Presidential Determination with Respect to Foreign

Presidential Determination No. 2004-46 of September 10,
2004

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 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.

(Presidential Sig.)B

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, September 10, 2004.