[House Document 112-97]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



112th Congress, 2d Session - - - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 112-97


 
     CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO SOMALIA

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                             COMMUNICATION

                                  from

                     THEPRESIDENTOFTHEUNITEDSTATES

                              transmitting

   NOTIFICATION THAT THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO SOMALIA 
ORIGINALLY DECLARED ON APRIL 12, 2010, BY EXECUTIVE ORDER 13536, IS TO 
CONTINUE IN EFFECT BEYOND APRIL 12, 2012, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1622(d)




   April 19, 2012.--Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 
                         ordered to be printed
                                           The White House,
                                        Washington, April 10, 2012.
Hon. John A. Boehner,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
    Dear Mr. Speaker: Section 202(d) of the National 
Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides for the automatic 
termination of a national emergency unless, within 90 days 
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 to the Federal Register for publication the 
enclosed notice stating that the national emergency declared in 
Executive Order 13536 of April 12, 2010, is to continue in 
effect beyond April 12, 2012.
    The fragile security situation and the persistence of 
violence in Somalia, and acts of piracy and armed robbery at 
sea off the coast of Somalia, which have repeatedly been the 
subject of United Nations Security Council resolutions, and 
violations of the Somalia arms embargo imposed by the United 
Nations Security Council, continue to pose an unusual and 
extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign 
policy of the United States. For these reasons, I have 
determined that it is necessary to continue the national 
emergency with respect to Somalia and related measures blocking 
the property of certain persons contributing to the conflict in 
Somalia.
            Sincerely,
                                                      Barack Obama.
                                 Notice

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     Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Somalia

    On April 12, 2010, by Executive Order 13536, I declared a 
national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the 
unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and 
foreign policy of the United States constituted by the fragile 
security situation and the persistence of violence in Somalia, 
and acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea off the coast of 
Somalia, which have repeatedly been the subject of United 
Nations Security Council resolutions, and violations of the 
Somalia arms embargo imposed by the United Nations Security 
Council.
    Because the situation with respect to Somalia continues to 
pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national 
security and foreign policy of the United States, the national 
emergency declared on April 12, 2010, and the measures adopted 
on that date to deal with that emergency, must continue in 
effect beyond April 12, 2012. Therefore, in accordance with 
section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 
1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency 
declared in Executive Order 13536.
    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.
                                                      Barack Obama.
    The White House, April 10, 2012.

                                  
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