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[Federal Register: August 25, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 164)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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                        Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Presidential Determination No. 2003-32 of August 18,
                2003


                Resumption of U.S. Drug Interdiction Assistance
                to the Government of Colombia

                Memorandum for the Secretary of State [and] the
                Secretary of Defense

                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. section 2291-4), I
                hereby certify, with respect to Colombia, 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 Federal Register and
                to notify the Congress of this determination.

                    (Presidential Sig.)B

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, August 18, 2003.

[FR Doc. 03-21676
Filed 8-22-03; 8:45 am]

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