[House Document 118-70]
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118th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - House Document 118-70 
 
CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO SIGNIFICANT DRUG 
                    TRAFFICKERS CENTERED IN COLOMBIA

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                                MESSAGE

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                     THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

 NOTIFICATION THAT THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY, WITH RESPECT TO SIGNIFICANT 
NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS CENTERED IN COLOMBIA DECLARED IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 
12978 OF OCTOBER 21, 1995, IS TO CONTINUE IN EFFECT BEYOND OCTOBER 21, 
 2023, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1622(d); PUBLIC LAW 94-412, SEC. 202(d); 
                            (90 STAT. 1257)








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  October 26, 2023.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the 
         Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed 
         
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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, 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 with respect to significant 
narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia declared in 
Executive Order 12978 of October 21, 1995, is to continue in 
effect beyond October 21, 2023.
    The circumstances that led to the declaration of a national 
emergency on October 21, 1995, 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 an extreme level of violence, 
corruption, and harm in the United States and abroad. For this 
reason, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the 
national emergency declared in Executive Order 12978 with 
respect to significant narcotics traffickers centered in 
Colombia.

                                               Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
    The White House, October 17, 2023.


















                                 Notice

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

    On October 21, 1995, by Executive Order 12978, the 
President declared a national emergency pursuant to the 
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et 
seq.) 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 extreme level of 
violence, corruption, and harm such actions cause in the United 
States and abroad.
    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 cause an extreme level of violence, 
corruption, and harm in the United States and abroad. For this 
reason, the national emergency declared in Executive Order 
12978 of October 21, 1995, must continue in effect beyond 
October 21, 2023. Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) 
of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. l622(d)), I am 
continuing for 1 year the national emergency with respect to 
significant narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia declared 
in Executive Order 12978.
    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.

                                               Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
    The White House, October 17, 2023.

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