[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 34 (Monday, August 25, 1997)]
[Pages 1256-1257]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Assistance to Colombia

August 16, 1997

Presidential Determination No. 97-31

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Use of Section 614 to Provide Assistance to Colombia

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 614(a)(2) of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, 22 U.S.C. 2364(a)(2) (the 
``Act''), I hereby determine that it is vital to the national security 
interests of the United States to make sales and extend credits to 
Colombia of up to $30 million in

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Foreign Military Financing under the Arms Export Control Act, without 
regard to any provision of the law within the scope of section 614. I 
hereby authorize such making of sales and extensions of credit, 
including the expenditure of previously obligated Foreign Military 
Financing funds needed to finance such sales.
    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 614(a)(1) of the 
Act, 22 U.S.C. 2364(a)(1), I hereby determine that it is important to 
the security interests of the United States to furnish up to $600,000 in 
Fiscal Year 1997 funds under Chapter 5 of part II of the Act for 
Colombia, without regard to any provision of the law within the scope of 
section 614. I hereby authorize the furnishing of such assistance.
    You are authorized and directed to report this determination to the 
Congress and to arrange for its publication in the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary 
on August 18.