[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 42 (Monday, October 23, 2000)]
[Page 2516]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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 Notice--Continuation of Emergency With Respect to Significant Narcotics 
Traffickers Centered in Colombia

 October 19, 2000

    On October 21, 1995, by Executive Order 12978, I declared a national 
emergency 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 unparalleled violence, corruption, and harm they 
cause in the United States and abroad. The order blocks all property and 
interests in property of foreign persons listed in an Annex to the 
order, as well as persons determined to play a significant role in 
international narcotics trafficking centered in Colombia, to materially 
assist in, or provide financial or technological support for or goods or 
services in support of, narcotics trafficking activities of persons 
designated in or pursuant to the order, or to be owned or controlled by, 
or to act for or on behalf of, persons designated in or pursuant to the 
order. The order also prohibits any transaction or dealing by United 
States persons or within the United States in such property or interests 
in property. Because the activities of significant narcotics traffickers 
centered in Colombia continue to threaten the national security, foreign 
policy, and economy of the United States and to cause unparalleled 
violence, corruption, and harm in the United States and abroad, the 
national emergency declared on October 21, 1995, and the measures 
adopted pursuant thereto to deal with that emergency, must continue in 
effect beyond October 21, 2000. Therefore, in accordance with section 
202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am 
continuing the national emergency for 1 year with respect to significant 
narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia. This notice shall be 
published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress.
                                            William J. Clinton
 The White House,
 October 19, 2000

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:30 p.m., October 19, 
2000]

  Note:  This notice was published in the Federal Register on October 
20.