MEMORANDUM FROM THE PRESIDENT FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE: Presidential Determination on Waiver of Certification Under Section 3201
                                 THE WHITE HOUSE

                                 Office of the Press Secretary
                       (South Brunswick, New Jersey)

_                                                                For
Immediate Release                            August 23, 2000




                                 August 22, 2000




                                   Presidential Determination
                                   No.        2000-28





MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE

SUBJECT:       Presidential Determination on Waiver of Certification Under
               Section 3201 "Conditions on Assistance for Colombia," in
               Title III, Chapter 2 of the Emergency Supplemental Act, FY
               2000, as Enacted in Public Law 106-246


Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 3201(a)(4) of the FY 2000
Emergency Supplemental Act (the "Act"), I hereby determine that it is in
the national security interest of the United States to furnish assistance
made available under the Act to the Government of Colombia without regard
to the following provisions of section 3201 of that Act:

     (a)(1)(A)(ii) the Commander General of the Colombian Armed Forces is
     promptly suspending from duty any Colombian Armed Forces personnel who
     are credibly alleged to have committed gross violations of human
     rights or to have aided or abetted paramilitary groups;

     (a)(1)(A)(iii) the Colombian Armed Forces and its Commander General
     are fully complying with section 3201 (a)(1)(A)(i) and (ii) of the
     Act;

     (a)(1)(B) the Colombian Armed Forces are cooperating fully with
     civilian authorities in investigating, prosecuting, and punishing in
     the civilian courts Colombian Armed Forces personnel who are credibly
     alleged to have committed gross violations of human rights;

     (a)(1)(C) the Government of Colombia is vigorously prosecuting in the
     civilian courts the leaders and members of paramilitary groups and
     Colombian Armed Forces personnel who are aiding or abetting these
     groups;

     (a)(1)(D) the Government of Colombia has agreed to and is implementing
     a strategy to eliminate Colombia's total coca and opium poppy
     production by 2005 through a mix of alter-native development programs;
     manual eradication; aerial spraying of chemical herbicides; tested,
     environmentally safe mycoherbicides; and the destruction of illicit
     narcotics laboratories on Colombian territory; and

     (a)(1)(E) the Colombian Armed Forces are developing and deploying in
     their field units a Judge Advocate General Corps to investigate
     Colombian Armed Forces personnel for misconduct.

I have attached a Memorandum of Justification for the decision to waive the
foregoing certifications.

You are hereby authorized and directed to report this waiver to the
appropriate Committees of the Congress and to arrange for its publication
in the Federal Register.




                              WILLIAM J. CLINTON




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