[House Document 105-326]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



105th Congress, 2d Session - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 105-326


 
  NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS IN COLOMBIA

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                                MESSAGE

                                  from

                   THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

 NOTIFICATION THAT THE EMERGENCY DECLARED WITH RESPECT TO SIGNIFICANT 
NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS CENTERED IN COLOMBIA IS TO CONTINUE IN EFFECT FOR 
    ONE YEAR BEYOND OCTOBER 21, 1998, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1622(d)





 October 19, 1998.--Message referred to the Committee on International 
                  Relations and ordered to be printed


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, 1998.
    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 extraordinary 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 in force the 
broad authorities necessary to maintain economic pressure on 
significant narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia by 
blocking their property subject to the jurisdiction of the 
United States and by depriving them of access to the United 
States market and financial system.

                                                William J. Clinton.
    The White House, October 19, 1998.


                                 Notice

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    Continuation of Emergency With Respect to Significant Narcotics 
                    Traffickers Centered in Colombia

    On October 21, 1995, by Executive Order 12978, I declared a 
national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary 
threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of 
the United States constituted by the actions of significant 
foreign narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia, and the 
unparalleled violence, corruption, and harm that they cause in 
the United States and abroad. The order blocks all property and 
interests in property of foreign persons listed in an Annex to 
the order, as well as foreign persons determined to play a 
significant role in international narcotics trafficking 
centered in Colombia, to materially assist in, or provide 
financial or technological support for or goods or services in 
support of, the narcotics trafficking activities of persons 
designated in or pursuant to the order, or to be owned or 
controlled by, or to act for or on behalf of, persons 
designated in or pursuant to the order. The order also 
prohibits any transaction or dealing by United States persons 
or within the United States in such property or interests in 
property. Because the activities of significant narcotics 
traffickers centered in Colombia continue to threaten 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, the national emergency 
declared on October 21, 1995, and the measures adopted pursuant 
thereto to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect 
beyond October 21, 1998. Therefore, in accordance with section 
202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I 
am continuing the national emergency for 1 year with respect to 
significant narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia.
    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.

                                                William J. Clinton.
    The White House, October 19, 1998.

                                
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