[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 20 (Tuesday, February 1, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 5264]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-1846]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 4983]


Certification Under Section 584(b) of the Foreign Operations, 
Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2005 (Div. 
D, P.L. 108-447)

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me as Secretary of State, 
including under section 584(b) of the Foreign Operations, Export 
Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2005 (Div. D, P.L. 
108-447), I hereby certify that:
    1. The role of the Guatemalan military has been limited, in 
doctrine and practice, to substantially those activities in defense of 
Guatemala's sovereignty and territorial integrity that are permitted by 
the 1996 Peace Accords, and that the Government of Guatemala is taking 
steps to pass a new governing law of the Army (Ley Constitutiva del 
Ejercito).
    2. The Guatemalan military is cooperating with civilian judicial 
authorities, including providing full cooperation on access to 
witnesses, documents and classified intelligence files, in 
investigations and prosecutions of military personnel who have been 
implicated in human rights violations and other criminal activity.
    3. The Government of Guatemala is working with the United Nations 
to resolve legal impediments to the establishment of the Commission for 
the Investigation of Illegal Groups and Clandestine Security 
Organizations (CICIACS), so that CICIACS can effectively accomplish its 
mission of investigating and bringing to justice illegal groups and 
members of clandestine security organizations.
    4. The Government of Guatemala is continuing its efforts to make 
the military budget process transparent and accessible to civilian 
authorities and to the public, for both present and past expenditures.
    5. The Government of Guatemala is working to facilitate the prompt 
establishment of an office in Guatemala of the United Nations High 
Commissioner for Human Rights with the unimpeded authority to 
investigate and report on human rights in Guatemala.
    6. The Government of Guatemala is taking steps to increase its 
efforts to combat narcotics trafficking and organized crime.
    This certification shall be published in the Federal Register and 
copies shall be transmitted to the appropriate committees of Congress.

    Dated: January 25, 2005.
Colin L. Powell,
Secretary of State, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 05-1846 Filed 1-31-05; 8:45 am]
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