    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 9 (Monday, March 4, 2002)]
    [Page 287]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Memorandum on the President's Report to Congress on Major Drug Transit
    or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries

    February 23, 2002

     Presidential Determination No. 2002-07

    Memorandum for the Secretary of State

    Subject: President's Report to Congress on Major Drug Transit or Major
    Illicit Drug Producing Countries under the FY 2002 Modification to the
    Annual Drug Certification Procedures

        This report is submitted under section 591 of the Kenneth H. Ludden
    Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs Appropriations
    Act, 2002 (P.L. 107-115) (the ``FY 2002 FOAA''). Pursuant to section 591
    of the FY 2002 FOAA, I hereby identify the following countries as major
    drug-transit or major illicit drug producing countries: Afghanistan, The
    Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma, China, Colombia, Dominican Republic,
    Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Nigeria,
    Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Thailand, Venezuela, and Vietnam. I
    previously identified these same countries as major drug-transit or
    major illicit drug producing countries on November 1, 2001, pursuant to
    section 490(h) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (the
    ``FAA'').
        Pursuant to section 591 of the FY 2002 FOAA, I hereby designate
    Afghanistan, Burma and Haiti as countries that failed demonstrably,
    during the previous 12 months, to adhere to their obligations under
    international counternarcotics agreements and to take the
    counternarcotics measures set forth in section 489(a) (1) of the FAA. I
    have attached a justification for each of the countries so designated,
    as required by section 591.
        Pursuant to section 591(3), I hereby also determine that provision
    of United States assistance to Afghanistan and Haiti in FY 2002 under
    the FY 2002 FOAA is vital to the national interests of the United
    States.
        You are hereby authorized and directed to transmit this report to
    the Congress and to publish it in the Federal Register.
                                                    George W. Bush

    [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., March 4,
    2002]

    Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary
    on February 25. The memorandum and the attached statements of
    explanation will be published in the Federal Register on March 5.