Notice2024-21952
Certification Related to Foreign Military Financing for Colombia Under Section 7045(c)(3)(B) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2024
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Published
September 25, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 186 (Wednesday, September 25, 2024)]
[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: 2024-21952]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice: 12547]
Certification Related to Foreign Military Financing for Colombia
Under Section 7045(c)(3)(B) of the Department of State, Foreign
Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2024
Pursuant to the authority vested in the Secretary of State,
including under section 7045(c)(3)(B) of the Department of State,
Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2024 (Div.
F, Pub. L. 118-47), 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;
(iv) senior 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; and
(v) the Colombian Armed Forces are cooperating fully with the
requirements described in (I) through (IV) above.
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, 2024.
Antony J. Blinken,
Secretary of State.
[FR Doc. 2024-21952 Filed 9-24-24; 8:45 am]
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