[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 42 (Monday, October 22, 2001)]
[Page 1499]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Message to the Congress Transmitting a Report on the National Emergency 
With Respect to Significant Narcotics Traffickers Centered in Colombia

October 16, 2001

To the Congress of the United States:

    As required by section 401(c) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 
U.S.C. 1641(c), and 204(c) of the International Emergency Economic 
Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(c), I transmit herewith a 6-month periodic 
report on the national emergency with respect to significant narcotics 
traffickers centered in Colombia that was declared in Executive Order 
12978 of October 21, 1995.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 October 16, 2001.

Note: This message was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
October 17.