[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 40 (Monday, October 5, 1998)]
[Pages 1939-1940]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Providing International Counternarcotics Assistance to 
Certain Countries

September 30, 1998

Presidential Determination No. 98-41

Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, 
the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, the Secretary of 
Transportation

Subject: Drawdrawn Under Section 506(a)(2) of the Foreign Assistance Act 
to Provide Counternarcotics Assistance to Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, 
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, 
Trinidad and Tobago, 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 Departments of Justice, State, 
Transportation, and the Treasury for the purpose of providing 
international narcotics assistance to Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, 
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, 
and Trinidad and Tobago; and to Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, 
Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the 
Grenadines (hereinafter, ``the Eastern Caribbean countries'').
    Therefore, I direct the drawdown of up to $75 million of articles 
and services from the inventory and resources of the Departments of 
Defense, Transportation, Justice, State, and the Treasury, and military 
education and training from the Department of Defense, for Bolivia, 
Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, 
Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Eastern Caribbean 
countries for the purposes and under the authorities of chapter 8 of 
part I of the Act.

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    As a matter of policy and consistent with past practice, the 
Administration will seek to ensure that the assistance furnished under 
this drawdown is not provided to any unit of any foreign country's 
security forces if that unit is credibly alleged to have committed gross 
violations of human rights unless the government of such country is 
taking effective measures to bring the responsible members of that unit 
to justice.
    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