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Presidential Determination No. 2019–05 of November 29, 2018 

Presidential Determination With Respect to the Efforts of Foreign Governments Regarding Trafficking in Persons 

Memorandum for the Secretary of State 

Consistent with section 110 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 

2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107) (the ‘‘Act’’), as amended, I hereby determine as follows: 

As provided for in section 110(d)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, I determine that the 

United States will not provide nonhumanitarian, nontrade-related assistance 

to the Governments of Belarus, Belize, Bolivia, Burma, Burundi, China, 

Comoros, the Republic of the Congo (ROC), the Democratic Republic of 

the Congo (DRC), Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Iran, Laos, Mauritania, Papua 

New Guinea (PNG), South Sudan, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela for Fiscal 

Year (FY) 2019 until such governments comply with the minimum standards 

or make significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with the 

Act. 

As provided for in section 110(d)(1)(A)(ii) of the Act, I determine that 

the United States will not provide nonhumanitarian, nontrade-related assistance to, or allow funding for participation in educational and cultural exchange programs by officials or employees of, the Governments of Eritrea, 

the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Russia, and Syria for 

FY 2019 until such governments comply with the Act’s minimum standards 

or make significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with the 

Act. 

As provided for in section 110(d)(1)(B) of the Act, I hereby instruct the 

United States Executive Director of each multilateral development bank, 

as defined in the Act, and of the International Monetary Fund to vote 

against and use best efforts to deny any loan or other utilization of the 

funds of the respective institution (other than for humanitarian assistance; 

for trade-related assistance; or for development assistance that directly addresses basic human needs, is not administered by the government of such 

country, and confers no benefit to that government) for the Governments 

of Bolivia, Burma, Burundi, China, Comoros, ROC, DRC, DPRK, Equatorial 

Guinea, Gabon, Iran, Laos, Mauritania, Russia, South Sudan, Syria, and 

Venezuela for FY 2019 until such governments comply with the minimum 

standards or make significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance 

with the Act. 

Consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the Act, I determine that a partial 

waiver to allow International Military Education and Training (IMET), Foreign Military Financing (FMF), and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) related 

to FMF with respect to Belize would promote the purposes of the Act 

or is otherwise in the national interest of the United States; 

Consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the Act, I determine that a partial 

waiver to allow assistance described in section 110(d)(1)(A)(i) of the Act 

with respect to PNG—with the exception of Peacekeeping Operations (PKO), 

FMS not related to FMF, and Excess Defense Articles (EDA)—would promote 

the purposes of the Act or is otherwise in the national interest of the 

United States; 

Consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the Act, I determine that a partial 

waiver with respect to Eritrea to allow funding for educational and cultural 


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exchange programs described in section 110(d)(1)(A)(ii) of the Act, and 

a partial waiver to allow assistance described in section 110(d)(1)(A)(ii) 

of the Act with respect to Eritrea—with the exception of FMF, FMS, IMET, 

EDA, and PKO—would promote the purposes of the Act or is otherwise 

in the national interest of the United States; 

Consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the Act, I determine that the provision 

of all programs, projects, and activities described in section 110(d)(1)(A)(i) 

of the Act to the Governments of Belarus and Turkmenistan would promote 

the purposes of the Act or is otherwise in the national interest of the 

United States; and 

Consistent with section 110(d)(4) of the Act, I determine that providing 

assistance described in section 110(d)(1)(B) of the Act to Belarus, Belize, 

Eritrea, PNG, and Turkmenistan would promote the purposes of the Act 

or is otherwise in the national interest of the United States. 

You are authorized and directed to submit this determination, the certification required by section 110(e) of the Act, and the Department of State’s 

Memorandum of Justification, on which I have relied, to the Congress, 

and to publish the determination in the Federal Register. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

Washington, November 29, 2018 

[FR Doc. 2018–27696 

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