International Affairs (Function 150) Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Request Summary and Highlights of Accounts
	Released by the Office of the Secretary of State Resources, Plans and Policy U.S. Department of State, February 7, 2000

Counter-Narcotics Assistance

International Narcotics and Crime (INC): Program Description | INC Budget Figures

Assistance to Plan Colombia: Program Description | Plan Colombia Budget Figures

International Narcotics and Crime

• The FY 2001 budget request to combat international narcotics trafficking and crime totals $568 million, including $256 million in support of Plan Colombia.

• The request will assist in establishing a U.S. civilian police contingency program for internationally authorized missions ($10 million) in which the U.S. Government wishes to participate, as well as an African Regional Anti-Crime program focused primarily in Nigeria and South Africa ($10 million).

• The INC request will combat narcotics trafficking through support for source country interdiction, eradication, and alternative development programs, especially following up on continued progress against narcotics production in Peru and Bolivia.

• The request will provide material and logistical support for police and military counter-narcotics forces to intercept and block new smuggling routes and methods.

• The request funds $12 million in international drug control programs through the United Nations (UNDCP) and other multilateral groups.

Assistance to Plan Colombia

FY 2001 Appropriations request

• In addition to the $818 million supplemental request (outlined below), the FY 2001 request for Assistance to Plan Colombia is $256 million. U.S. assistance is designed to reduce the supply of narcotics to the United States from Colombia, the Andean Ridge, and the region and to assist Colombia in overcoming its current economic and social problems. Funding will benefit Colombia ($229 million), Peru ($12), Bolivia ($4 million), Ecuador ($4 million) and other regional countries ($7 million), such as Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panama, and Brazil.

• Plan Colombia has five sub-components: the push into southern Colombia, where most of the cocaine is grown and processed with relative impunity under the protection of guerrillas and paramilitaries; direct drug trafficking interdiction in Colombia and several neighboring countries; support for the Colombian National Police; alternative development; and boosting governing capacity.

• Assistance to Plan Colombia is a two-year, $1.273 billion Foreign Operations and Department of Defense (DoD) assistance program designed to reduce the supply of drugs to the United States and bolster the ability of the Government of Colombia, the Andean Ridge, and the region to address the interlocking problems of narcotrafficking, guerilla and paramilitary violence, human rights abuses, internally displaced persons, and economic deterioration.

• Of the overall request, 94 percent of the funding is in support of Colombia. The remaining funding supports anti-narcotics and alternative development efforts in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Panama.

• Approximately 21 percent of the two-year program will enhance alternative development, strengthen civil justice and democratic institutions, and assist the internally displaced. The remainder of the program provides assistance to counter-narcotics forces engaged in eradication and interdiction and to selected military forces supporting them. The two-year Foreign Operations and DoD package consists of:

• FY 2000 -- Foreign Operations ($818 million) and DoD ($136 million) emergency supplemental requests; and
• FY 2001 -- Foreign Operations ($256 million) and DoD ($62 million) budget requests.