[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 44, Number 41 (Monday, October 20, 2008)]
[Pages 1349-1350]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Provision of U.S. Drug Interdiction Assistance to the 
Government of Brazil

October 15, 2008

 Presidential Determination No. 2009-4

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 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

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Federal Register and to notify the Congress of this determination.
                                                George W. Bush

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., October 21, 
2008]

Note: This memorandum will be published in the Federal Register on 
October 22.