12 2 STA T .53 53 PROCL A M AT I O N8 2 94— S E PT. 2 6, 2 0 08 TheCongr e s s ,byS en at e J o i nt R eso lu tion 1 1 5 o f June 23 ,1 9 3 6(4 9 Stat . 1 8 95asa m en d ed ) , has designated the last Sunday in Se p tember as ‘ ‘ G old Star M other ’ s D ay’’ and has authori z ed and re q uested the P resi - dent to issue a pro c lamation in its obser v ance. NOW ,T HE RE F ORE, I , GEORGE W. BU SH, President of the United States of A merica, do hereby proclaim Sunday, September 28, 2 0 08, as Gold Star Mother’s Day. I call upon all Government officials to display the flag of the United States over Government buildings on this special day. I also encourage the American people to display the flag and hold appropriate ceremonies as a public e x pression of our Nation’s sym- pathy and respect for our Gold Star Mothers. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this t w enty- fourth day of September, in the year of our L ord two thousand eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hun- dred and thirty-third. GEORGE W. BUSH Proclam a ti o n8294 o fSep tem b er2 6, 2 0 08 ToImple me ntA men d ment s tot h e Bur mese F reedom a nd D emo c rac y Act o f20 0 3BythePr e sid e n t of the U nited S t a tes of Am eri c a A Proc l amation 1. Section 3A(b)(1) of the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003 (Public Law 108 – 61) (the ‘‘Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act’’), as amended by section 6(a) of the Tom Lantos Bloc k Burmese JADE (Junta’s Anti-Democratic Efforts) Act of 2008 (Public Law 110– 286) (the ‘‘JADE Act’’), directs the President to prohibit the importation of j adeite and rubies mined or extracted from Burma, as well as the importation of articles of jewelry containing jadeite and rubies mined or extracted from Burma (Burmese covered articles), until such time as the President determines and certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that Burma has met the conditions described in section 3(a)(3) of the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act. 2. Sections 3A(c)(1) and 3A(c)(2) of the Burmese Freedom and Democ- racy Act, as amended, set forth certain conditions for the importation of jadeite and rubies mined or extracted from countries other than Burma, as well as for the importation of articles of jewelry containing jadeite and rubies mined or extracted from countries other than Burma (non-Burmese covered articles). 3. Section 3A(c)(2) of the Act, as amended, also permits the President to waive the conditions for importation set forth in section 3A(c)(1) of non-Burmese covered articles from any country with respect to which the President determines and certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that the country has implemented certain measures to pre- vent the trade in Burmese covered articles. 4. In order to implement the prohibitions on the importation of Burmese covered articles and the conditions for importation of non-Burmese covered articles set forth in sections 3A(b)(1), 3A(c)(1), and 3A(c)(2) of the Burmese Free-
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