Continuation of U.S. Drug Interdiction Assistance to the Government of Colombia to the Secretary of State, 2017

Administration of Donald J. Trump, 2017

July 21, 2017

By the President of the United States of America

A Determination

Continuation of U.S. Drug Interdiction Assistance to the Government of Colombia to the Secretary of State, 2017

Determination for the Archivist of the United States, Secretary of State and 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 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) 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 determination in the Federal Register and to notify the Congress of this determination.

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