Notice2022-20109
Certification Related to Foreign Military Financing for Colombia under Section 7045(B)(2)(B) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2022
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Published
September 16, 2022
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 179 (Friday, September 16, 2022)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-20109]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice: 11861]
Certification Related to Foreign Military Financing for Colombia
under Section 7045(B)(2)(B) of the Department of State, Foreign
Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2022
Pursuant to the authority vested in the Secretary of State,
including under section 7045(b)(2)(B) of the Department of State,
Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2022 (Div.
K, Pub. L. 117-103), I hereby certify that:
i. The Special Jurisdiction for Peace and other judicial
authorities, as appropriate, are sentencing perpetrators of gross
violations of human rights, including those with command
responsibility, to deprivation of liberty;
ii. The Government of Colombia is making consistent progress in
reducing threats and attacks against human rights defenders and other
civil society activists, and judicial authorities are prosecuting and
punishing those responsible for ordering and carrying out such attacks;
iii. The Government of Colombia is making consistent progress in
protecting Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities and is respecting
their rights and territories; and
iv. Military officers credibly alleged, or whose units are credibly
alleged, to be responsible for ordering, committing, and covering up
cases of false positives and other extrajudicial killings, or of
committing other gross violations of human rights, or of conducting
illegal communications intercepts or other illicit surveillance, are
being held accountable, including removal from active duty if found
guilty through criminal, administrative, or disciplinary proceedings.
This Certification shall be published in the Federal Register and
shall be transmitted, along with the accompanying Memorandum of
Justification, to Congress.
Dated: September 9, 2022.
Antony J. Blinken,
Secretary of State.
[FR Doc. 2022-20109 Filed 9-15-22; 8:45 am]
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