    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 3 (Monday, January 21, 2002)]
    [Page 81]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Notice--Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Sierra
    Leone and Liberia

    January 15, 2002

        On January 18, 2001, by Executive Order 13194, the President
    declared a national emergency with respect to Sierra Leone pursuant to
    the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to
    deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of
    the United States constituted by the actions and policies of the
    insurgent Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone and pursuant
    to which the United States imposed a general ban on the direct and
    indirect importation of all rough diamonds from Sierra Leone to the
    United States, except those imports controlled through the Certificate
    of Origin regime of the Government of Sierra Leone. On May 22, 2001, I
    issued Executive Order 13213, which expanded the scope of the national
    emergency to include actions of the Government of Liberia in support of
    the RUF and prohibited the importation of all rough diamonds from
    Liberia.
        Because the actions and policies of the RUF continue to pose an
    unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United
    States, the national emergency declared on January 18, 2001, as expanded
    on May 22, 2001, and the measures adopted on those dates to deal with
    that emergency must continue in effect beyond January 18, 2002.
    Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies
    Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national
    emergency with respect to Sierra Leone and Liberia.
        This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and
    transmitted to the Congress.
                                                    George W. Bush
     The White House,
     January 15, 2002.

     [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:50 a.m., January 16,
    2002]

    Note: This notice was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on
    January 17, and it was published in the Federal Register on January 17.