[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 34 (Monday, August 28, 2000)]
[Pages 1916-1917]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Waiver of Certification for Conditions
on Assistance for Colombia

August 22, 2000

 Presidential Determination No. 2000-28

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Presidential Determination on Waiver of Certification Under 
Section 3201 ``Conditions on Assistance for Colombia,'' in Title III, 
Chapter 2 of the Emergency Supplemental Act, FY 2000, as Enacted in 
Public Law 106-246

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 3201(a)(4) of the 
FY 2000 Emergency Supplemental Act (the ``Act''), I hereby determine 
that it is in the national security interest of the United States to 
furnish assistance made available under the Act to the Government of 
Colombia without regard to the following provisions of section 3201 of 
that Act:

       (a)(1)(A)(ii) the Commander General of the Colombian Armed Forces 
      is promptly suspending from duty any Colombian Armed Forces 
      personnel who are credibly alleged to have committed gross 
      violations of human rights or to have aided or abetted 
      paramilitary groups;

       (a)(1)(A)(iii) the Colombian Armed Forces and its Commander 
      General are fully complying with section 3201 (a)(1)(A)(i) and 
      (ii) of the Act;

       (a)(1)(B) the Colombian Armed Forces are cooperating fully with 
      civilian authorities in investigating, prosecuting, and punishing 
      in the civilian courts Colombian Armed Forces personnel who are 
      credibly alleged to have committed gross violations of human 
      rights;

       (a)(1)(C) the Government of Colombia is vigorously prosecuting in 
      the civilian courts the leaders and members of paramilitary groups 
      and Colombian Armed Forces personnel who are aiding or abetting 
      these groups;

       (a)(1)(D) the Government of Colombia has agreed to and is 
      implementing a strategy to eliminate Colombia's total coca and 
      opium poppy production by 2005 through a mix of alter-native 
      development programs; manual eradication; aerial spraying of 
      chemical herbicides; tested, environmentally safe mycoherbicides; 
      and the destruction of illicit narcotics laboratories on Colombian 
      territory; and

       (a)(1)(E) the Colombian Armed Forces are developing and deploying 
      in their field units a Judge Advocate General Corps to investigate 
      Colombian Armed Forces personnel for misconduct.

    I have attached a Memorandum of Justification for the decision to 
waive the foregoing certifications.
    You are hereby authorized and directed to report this waiver to the 
appropriate Committees of the Congress and to arrange for its 
publication in the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., August 28, 
2000]

Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary 
on August 23, and it will be published in the Federal Register on August 
29. The Office of the Press Secretary also made available the Memorandum 
of Justification in Connection With the Waivers Under Section 3201(a)(4) 
of the Emergency Supplemental Act, as Enacted in the Military 
Construction Appropriations Act, 2001.

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