For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 17, 2001
Notice
To the Congress of the United States
Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d)
provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless,
prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President publishes
in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice stating that
the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. In
accordance with this provision, I have sent the enclosed notice to the
Federal Register for publication, stating that the emergency declared with
respect to significant narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia is to
continue in effect for 1 year beyond October 21, 2001.
The circumstances that led to the
declaration on October 21, 1995, of a national emergency have not been
resolved. The actions of significant narcotics traffickers
centered in Colombia continue to pose an unusual and extraor-dinary
threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the
United States and to cause unparalleled violence, corruption, and harm
in the United States and abroad. For these reasons, I have
determined that it is necessary to maintain economic pressures on
significant narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia by blocking
their property or interests in property that are in the United States
or within the possession or control of United States persons and by
depriving them of access to the United States market and financial
system.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 16, 2001.
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