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Presidential Determination and Certification with Respect to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008
Signed August 4, 2025, printed at 90 FR 40019. 110 words.
A law bars some aid to states that use child soldiers. This names who is covered and who is let off.
What It Says
Memorandum for the Secretary of State Pursuant to section 404, of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 (22 U.S.C. 2370c-l) (CSPA), I hereby: Determine that it is in the national interest of the United States to waive the application of the prohibition in section 404(a) of the CSPA with respect to Turkey; and Certify that the Government of Turkey is taking effective and continuing steps to address the problem of child soldiers. Accordingly, I hereby waive such application of section 404(a) of the CSPA. You are authorized and directed to submit this determination and certification to the Congress and to publish this determination and certification in the Federal Register.
- The determination itself
Determination, “Presidential Determination and Certification with Respect to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008,” signed August 4, 2025, 90 FR 40019 (August 15, 2025).
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/15/2025-15680/presidential-determination-and-certification-with-respect-to-the-child-soldiers-prevention-act-of - This page
Determination, quoted from its opening. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/presidential/determ-2025-15680/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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What a Determination Is
A determination is a finding a statute requires the President to make before something can happen: that a country qualifies, that a waiver is justified, that a transfer is in the national interest.
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