[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 168 (Tuesday, August 29, 2000)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 52291-52292]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-22209]


 
 
                         Presidential Documents 
 
 

  Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 168 / Tuesday, August 29, 2000 / 
Presidential Documents  

[[Page 52291]]


                Presidential Determination No. 2000-28 of August 22, 
                2000

                
Presidential Determination on Waiver of 
                Certification Under Section 3201 ``Conditions on 
                Assistance for Colombia,''

                in Title III, Chapter 2 of the Emergency Supplemental 
                Act,
                FY 2000, as Enacted in Public Law 106-246
                Memorandum for the Secretary of State

                Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 
                3201(a)(4) of the FY 2000 Emergency Supplemental Act 
                (the ``Act''), I hereby determine that it is in the 
                national security interest of the United States to 
                furnish assistance made available under the Act to the 
                Government of Colombia without regard to the following 
                provisions of section 3201 of that Act:

(a)(1)(A)(ii) the Commander General of the Colombian Armed Forces is 
promptly suspending from duty any Colombian Armed Forces personnel who are 
credibly alleged to have committed gross violations of human rights or to 
have aided or abetted paramilitary groups;

(a)(1)(A)(iii) the Colombian Armed Forces and its Commander General are 
fully complying with section 3201 (a)(1)(A)(i) and (ii) of the Act;

(a)(1)(B) the Colombian Armed Forces are cooperating fully with civilian 
authorities in investigating, prosecuting, and punishing in the civilian 
courts Colombian Armed Forces personnel who are credibly alleged to have 
committed gross violations of human rights;

(a)(1)(C) the Government of Colombia is vigorously prosecuting in the 
civilian courts the leaders and members of paramilitary groups and 
Colombian Armed Forces personnel who are aiding or abetting these groups;

(a)(1)(D) the Government of Colombia has agreed to and is implementing a 
strategy to eliminate Colombia's total coca and opium poppy production by 
2005 through a mix of alternative development programs; manual eradication; 
aerial spraying of chemical herbicides; tested, environmentally safe 
mycoherbicides; and the destruction of illicit narcotics laboratories on 
Colombian territory; and

(a)(1)(E) the Colombian Armed Forces are developing and deploying in their 
field units a Judge Advocate General Corps to investigate Colombian Armed 
Forces personnel for misconduct.

                I have attached a Memorandum of Justification for the 
                decision to waive the foregoing certifications.

[[Page 52292]]

                You are hereby authorized and directed to report this 
                waiver to the appropriate Committees of the Congress 
                and to arrange for its publication in the Federal 
                Register.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, August 22, 2000.

[FR Doc. 00-22209
Filed 8-28-00; 8:45 am]
Billing code 4710-10-M