[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 127 (Tuesday, July 20, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S4975]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE

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     REPORT ON THE CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY THAT WAS 
  ORIGINALLY DECLARED IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 13882 OF JULY 26, 2019, WITH 
                RESPECT TO THE SITUATION IN MALI--PM 12

  The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the following message 
from the President of the United States, together with an accompanying 
report; which was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs:

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 the situation in 
Mali declared in Executive Order 13882 of July 26, 2019, is to continue 
in effect beyond July 26, 2021.
  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.
                                                 Joseph R. Biden, Jr.  
The White House, July 20, 2021.

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