    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 43, Number 42 (Monday, October 22, 2007)]
    [Pages 1349-1350]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Memorandum on Provision of United States Drug Interdiction Assistance to
    the Government of Brazil

    October 16, 2007

     Presidential Determination No. 2008-03

    Memorandum for the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense

    Subject: Provision of U.S. Drug Interdiction Assistance to the
    Government of Brazil

        Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 1012 of the
    National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995, as amended (22
    U.S.C. 2291-4), I hereby certify, with respect to Brazil, that (1)
    interdiction of aircraft reasonably suspected to be primarily engaged in
    illicit drug trafficking in that country's airspace is necessary because
    of the extraordinary threat posed by illicit drug trafficking to the
    national security of that country; and (2) that country has appropriate
    procedures in place to protect against innocent loss of life in the air
    and on the ground in connection with such interdiction, which shall at a
    minimum include

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    effective means to identify and warn an aircraft before the use of force
    is directed against the aircraft.
        The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to publish this
    determination in the Federal Register and to notify the Congress of this
    determination.
                                                    George W. Bush

    Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary
    on October 17.