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(C) "Business operations" means engaging in commerce in any
form in Sudan, including acquiring, developing, maintaining, owning,
selling, possessing, leasing, or operating equipment, facilities,
personnel, products, services, personal property, real property, or
any other apparatus of business or commerce.
(D) "company" means any sole proprietorship, organization,
association, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited
partnership, limited—liability partnership, limited liability
company, or other entity or business association, including all
wholly owned subsidiaries, majority owned subsidiaries, parent
companies, or affiliates of such entities or business associations,
that exist for profit making purposes.
(E) "complicit" means taking actions during any preceding
20-month period beginning July 1, 2007, that have directly
supported or promoted the genocidal campaign in darfur,
including:
(1) preventing Darfur's victimized population from
communicating with each other;
(2) encouraging Sudanese citizens to speak out against
an internationally approved security force for darfur; or
(3) actively working to deny, cover up, or alter the
record on human rights abuses in darfur, or other similar actions.
(F) "direct holdings" means all securities of a company that
are held directly by the board of trustees on behalf of the several
systems in an account or fund in which the board of trustees owns
all shared or interest.
(G) (1) "government of Sudan" means the government in
Khartoum, Sudan, that is led by the National Congress Party
(formerly known as the national islamic front) or any successor
government formed on or after October 13, 2006, including the
coalition National Unity Government agreed on in the
Comprehensive Peace Agreement for Sudan.
(2) "Government of Sudan" does not mean the regional
government of southern Sudan.
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