[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 42 (Monday, October 24, 2005)]
[Pages 1559-1560]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Notice--Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to 
Significant Narcotics Traffickers Centered in Colombia

October 19, 2005

    On October 21, 1995, by Executive Order 12978, the President 
declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the unusual and 
extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and 
economy of the United States constituted by the actions of significant 
narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia, and the extreme level of 
violence, corruption, and harm such actions cause in the United States 
and abroad.
    The order blocks all property and interests in property of foreign 
persons listed in an annex to the order that are in the United States or 
within the possession or control of U.S. persons, as well as of foreign 
persons determined to play a significant role in international narcotics 
trafficking centered in Colombia. The order similarly blocks all 
property and interests in property of foreign persons determined to 
materially assist in, or provide financial or technological support for 
or goods or services in support of, the narcotics trafficking activities 
of persons designated in or pursuant to the order, or persons determined 
to be owned or controlled by, or to act for or on behalf of, persons 
designated in or pursuant to the order. The order also prohibits any 
transaction or dealing by United States persons or within the United 
States in such property or interests in property.
    Because the actions of significant narcotics traffickers centered in 
Colombia continue to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and 
economy of the United States and to cause an extreme level of violence, 
corruption, and harm in the United States and abroad, the national 
emergency declared on October 21, 1995, and the measures adopted 
pursuant thereto to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect 
beyond October 21, 2005. 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

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to significant narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia. This notice 
shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the 
Congress.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 October 19, 2005.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 1:08 p.m., October 19, 
2005]

Note: This notice was published in the Federal Register on October 20.