[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 39 (Monday, October 4, 1999)]
[Pages 1869-1870]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Counter-Drug Assistance to Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and 
Panama

September 30, 1999

Presidential Determination No. 99-43

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

Subject: Drawdown Under Section 506(a)(2) of the Foreign Assistance Act 
to Provide Counter-Drug Assistance to Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and 
Panama

    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

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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 anti-narcotics assistance to 
Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Panama.
    Therefore, I direct the drawdown of up to $72.55 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 Colombia, 
Peru, Ecuador, and Panama for the purposes and under the authorities of 
chapter 8 of part I of the Act.
    As a matter of policy and consistent with past practice, my 
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