[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 40 (Monday, October 6, 1997)]
[Page 1469]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Counternarcotics Assistance to Certain Latin American and 
Eastern Caribbean Countries

September 30, 1997

Presidential Determination No. 97-38

Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the 
Secretary of Transportation

Subject: Drawdown Under Section 506(a)(2) of the Foreign Assistance Act 
to Provide Counternarcotics Assistance to Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, and 
the Countries of the Eastern Caribbean

    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 articles and services from the inventory and 
resources of the Department of Defense, military education and training 
from the Department of Defense, and articles and services from the 
inventory and resources of the Department of Transportation for the 
purpose of providing international narcotics assistance to Colombia, 
Venezuela, Peru, and the countries of the Eastern Caribbean Regional 
Security System (RSS), including: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, 
Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and 
the Grenadines.
    Therefore, I direct the drawdown of up to $20 million of articles 
and services from the inventory and resources of the Departments of 
Defense and Transportation, and military education and training from the 
Department of Defense, for the Governments of Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, 
and the countries of the RSS, 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 immediately and to arrange for its 
publication in the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary 
on October 1.