[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1992, Book I)]
[February 26, 1992]
[Pages 321-322]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]



Presidential Determination No. 92-17--Memorandum on Counternarcotics 
Assistance for Mexico

February 26, 1992
Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense

Subject: Drawdown from Department of Defense Stocks for Counternarcotics 
Assistance for Mexico

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 506(a)(2) of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, 22 U.S.C. 2318(a)(2) (the 
``Act''), I hereby determine that it is in the national interest of the 
United States to draw down defense articles from the stocks of the 
Department of Defense and defense services of the Department of Defense 
for the purpose of providing counternarcotics assistance to Mexico.

    Therefore, I hereby direct the drawdown of up to $26 million of such 
defense articles from the stocks of the Department of Defense and 
defense services of the Department of Defense, for the purposes and 
under the authorities of Chapter 8 of Part I of the Act.

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

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in the Federal Register.

                                                             George Bush

                    Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of 
                        the Press Secretary on February 27.