[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 42 (Monday, October 21, 2002)]
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[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, 2002

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 that my Administration has prepared 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, 2002.