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Obama names Jamaica as major drug trafficking nation
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Posted: 9/16/2009 4:08:20 PM
WASHINGTON, United States – President Barack Obama has named three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries among what he has described as the world’s major drug-transit and illicit drug-producing nations.
Obama identified the Bahamas, Haiti and Jamaica among 20 countries with those designations in 2009.
The others include the Dominican Republic, Afghanistan, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Venezuela.
“Under the Foreign Relations Authorisation Act (FAA), the President is required to notify Congress of those countries he determines to be major illicit drug-producing countries or major drug-transit countries,” said a US State Department statement issued here.
“A country’s presence on the list does not necessarily reflect its counter-narcotics efforts nor does it reflect its cooperation with the United States,” it added, noting that the designation can reflect a combination of geographic, commercial, and economic factors “that allow drugs to be produced and/or trafficked through a country despite its own best efforts”.
“When a country does not live up to its obligations under international counter-narcotics agreements and conventions, the President determines that the country has ‘failed demonstrably,’” the State Department said, pointing out that such a designation can lead to sanctions.
At the same time, it said the President may “execute a waiver” should he determine that continuing US assistance is in the national interest of the United States.
But the State Department warned that, even without such a waiver, humanitarian assistance and counter-narcotics assistance may continue
Hmmm :- We better arrange a plea deal quickly for Dudus. However about 5 years and no other questions asked?
CMC
Posted: 9/16/2009 4:08:20 PM
WASHINGTON, United States – President Barack Obama has named three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries among what he has described as the world’s major drug-transit and illicit drug-producing nations.
Obama identified the Bahamas, Haiti and Jamaica among 20 countries with those designations in 2009.
The others include the Dominican Republic, Afghanistan, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Venezuela.
“Under the Foreign Relations Authorisation Act (FAA), the President is required to notify Congress of those countries he determines to be major illicit drug-producing countries or major drug-transit countries,” said a US State Department statement issued here.
“A country’s presence on the list does not necessarily reflect its counter-narcotics efforts nor does it reflect its cooperation with the United States,” it added, noting that the designation can reflect a combination of geographic, commercial, and economic factors “that allow drugs to be produced and/or trafficked through a country despite its own best efforts”.
“When a country does not live up to its obligations under international counter-narcotics agreements and conventions, the President determines that the country has ‘failed demonstrably,’” the State Department said, pointing out that such a designation can lead to sanctions.
At the same time, it said the President may “execute a waiver” should he determine that continuing US assistance is in the national interest of the United States.
But the State Department warned that, even without such a waiver, humanitarian assistance and counter-narcotics assistance may continue
Hmmm :- We better arrange a plea deal quickly for Dudus. However about 5 years and no other questions asked?
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