[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 3, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H23]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 CONTINUATION OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO LIBYA (H. DOC. NO. 
                                104-157)

  The SPEAKER pro tempore laid before the House the following message 
from the President of the United States; which was read and, together 
with the accompanying papers, without objection, referred to the 
Committee on International Relations and ordered printed:
To the Congress of the United States:
  Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1662(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, stating that the Libyan emergency is to continue in 
effect beyond January 7, 1996, to the Federal Register for publication.
  The crisis between the United States and Libya that led to the 
declaration of a national emergency on January 7, 1986, has not been 
resolved. The Government of Libya has continued its actions and 
policies in support of terrorism, despite the calls by the United 
Nations Security Council, in Resolutions 731 (1992), 748 (1992), and 
883 (1993) that it demonstrate by concrete actions its renunciation of 
such terrorism. Such Libyan actions and policies pose a continuing 
unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and vital 
foreign policy interests of the United States. For these reasons, the 
national emergency declared on January 7, 1986, and the measures 
adopted on January 7 and January 8, 1986, to deal with that emergency, 
must continue in effect beyond January 7, 1996. I have determined that 
it is necessary to maintain in force the broad authorities necessary to 
apply economic pressure to the Government of Libya to reduce its 
ability to support international terrorism.
                                                  William J. Clinton.  
  The White House, January 3, 1996.

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