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

• Court: Executive Office Of The President
• Citation: 88 FR 56997
• Published date: 21 August 2023
• Record Number: 2023-18102
• Section: Presidential Documents

Presidential Documents

56997

Federal Register

Vol. 88, No. 160

Monday, August 21, 2023

Title 3—

The President

Presidential Determination No. 2023–09 of August 11, 2023

Continuation of U.S. Drug Interdiction Assistance to the Gov-

ernment of Colombia

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

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the

laws of the United States, and 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

Colombia, that: (1) interdiction of aircraft reasonably suspected to be pri-

marily engaged in illicit drug trafficking in that country’s airspace is nec-

essary, because of the extraordinary threat posed by illicit drug trafficking

to the national security of that country; and (2) Colombia 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 includes 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 determina-

tion in the Federal Register and to notify the Congress of this determination.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, August 11, 2023

[FR Doc. 2023–18102

Filed 8–18–23; 11:15 am]

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