For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 24, 2004

Memorandum for the Secretary of State the Secretary of the Treasury the Secretary of Defense the Administrator, United States Agency for International Development
Presidential Determination No. 2004-51

SUBJECT:  Determination to Make Available Assistance for Sudan

Consistent with the authority vested in me by the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004 (Public Law 108-106), under the heading "International Disaster and Famine Assistance," I hereby determine that it is in the national interest of the United States and essential to efforts to reduce international terrorism to furnish $20 million in assistance for Sudan from funds made available under that heading.

The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to report this determination to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the Federal Register.

GEORGE W. BUSH

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