    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 3 (Monday, January 21, 2002)]
    [Page 82]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Letter to Congressional Leaders on the National Emergency With Respect
    to Sierra Leone and Liberia

    January 15, 2002

    Dear Mr. Speaker:  (Dear Mr. President:)

        As required by section 401(c) of the National Emergencies Act, 50
    U.S.C. 1641(c), and section 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 Sierra Leone
    and Liberia that was declared in Executive Order 13194, of January 18,
    2001, and expanded in scope in Executive Order 13213, of May 22, 2001.
         Sincerely,
                                                    George W. Bush

    Note: Identical letters were sent to J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the
    House of Representatives, and Richard B. Cheney, President of the
    Senate. This letter was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on
    January 17.