[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 130 (Thursday, July 23, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H3715]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 CONTINUATION OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO MALI--MESSAGE FROM 
        THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 116-138)

  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, referred to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs 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, 
within 90 days before 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 with respect to the 
situation in Mali in Executive Order 13882 of July 26, 2019, is to 
continue in effect beyond July 26, 2020.
  The situation in Mali, including repeated violations of ceasefire 
arrangements made pursuant to the 2015 Agreement on Peace and 
Reconciliation in Mali; the expansion of terrorist activities into 
southern and central Mali; the intensification of drug trafficking and 
trafficking in persons, human rights abuses, and hostage-taking; and 
the intensification of attacks against civilians, the Malian defense 
and security forces, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated 
Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), and international security 
presences, continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the 
national security and foreign policy of the United States. Therefore, I 
have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency 
declared in Executive Order 13882 with respect to the situation in 
Mali.

                                                     Donald J. Trump.  
The White House, July 23, 2020.

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