[House Document 106-303]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



106th Congress, 2d Session - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 106-303


 
         SIGNIFICANT NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS CENTERED 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, 2000, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1622(d).




  October 23, 2000.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the 
     Committee on International Relations and ordered to be printed

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                    U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
89-011                     WASHINGTON : 2000

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, 2000.
    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 economic 
pressures 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, 2000.
                                 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 
narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia, and the 
unparalleled violence, corruption, and harm 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 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, 
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, 2000. 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, 2000.

                                  
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