Title 3--The President You are authorized and directed to publish this determination in the Fed- eral Register. GEORGE W. BUSH THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, July 10, 2007. Presidential Determination No. 2007-27 of July 12, 2007 Waiver of Limitation on Obligation and Expenditure of $642.5 Million in Fiscal Year 2007 Economic Support Funds for Iraq Memorandum for the Secretary of State Pursuant to the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 1314(c)(2) of the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 (Public Law l\1770-28)(tho "Act"), I hereby waive the requirements of section \1773\1774(c)(\177) for $642.5 million of Fiscal Year 2007 Economic Support Funds for Iraq and direct you to submit to the Congress this determination along with the certification in accordance with section 13\1774(c)(2) of the Act. You are hereby directed to publish this determination in the Federal Reg- ister. GEORGE W. BUSH THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, July 12, 2007. Notice of July 19, 2007 Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Former Liberian Regime of Charles Taylor On July 22, 2004, by Executive Order \1773348, I declared a national emer- gency and ordered related measures, including the blocking of property of certain persons associated with the former LiborJan regime of Charles Tay- lor, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. \17770\177-1706). I took this action to deal with the unusual and extraor- dinary threat to the foreign policy of the United States constituted by the actions and policies of former LiborJan President Charles Taylor and other persons, in particular, their unlawful depletion of LiborJan resources and their removal from Liberia and secreting of LiborJan funds and property, which have undermined Liberia's transition to democracy and the orderly development of its political, administrative, and economic institutions and resources. I further noted that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed on August \1778, 2003, and the related cease-fire had not yet been universally implemented throughout Liberia, and that the illicit trade in round logs 344
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