[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 9 (Monday, March 4, 2002)]
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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.