    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 43, Number 42 (Monday, October 22, 2007)]
    [Pages 1374-1375]
    [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 18, 2007

        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 that are in
    the United States, or within the possession or control of United States
    persons, of foreign persons listed in an annex to the order, 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. In addition, the order blocks all property and interests in
    property of 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 property or interests in property
    of the persons designated in or pursuant to the order.
        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, 2007. Therefore, in accordance with

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    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 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 18, 2007.

     [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:42 p.m., October 18,
    2007]

    Note: This notice was published in the Federal Register on October 19.