[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 48 (Monday, December 5, 1994)]
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[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Drug Interdiction Assistance to the Government of Colombia

December 1, 1994

Presidential Determination No. 95-7

Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense

Subject: Resumption of U.S. Drug Interdiction Assistance to the

Government of Colombia

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 1012 of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995, Public Law 103-
337, I hereby determine with respect to Colombia that: (a) interdiction 
of aircraft reasonably suspected to be primarily engaged in illicit drug 
trafficking in that country's airspace is necessary because of the 
extraordinary threat posed by illicit drug trafficking to the national 
security of that country; and (b) that country has appropriate 
procedures in place to protect against innocent loss of life in the air 
and on the ground in connection with such interdiction, which shall at a 
minimum include effective means to identify and warn an aircraft before 
the use of force is directed against the aircraft.
    The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to publish this 
determination in the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary 
on December 2.