[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 3 (Monday, January 20, 2003)]
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Notice--Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Sierra 
Leone and Liberia

January 16, 2003

    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 into 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, 2003. 
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 16, 2003.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:37 a.m., January 16, 
2003]

Note: This notice was published in the Federal Register on January 17.