    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 43, Number 42 (Monday, October 22, 2007)]
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    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Message to the Congress on Continuation of the National Emergency With
    Respect to Significant Narcotics Traffickers Centered in Colombia

    October 18, 2007

    To the Congress of the United States:

        Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d),
    provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless,
    prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President
    publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice
    stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the
    anniversary date. In accordance with this provision, I have sent the
    enclosed notice to the Federal Register for publication, stating that
    the emergency declared with respect to significant narcotics traffickers
    centered in Colombia is to continue in effect beyond October 21, 2007.
        The circumstances that led to the declaration on October 21, 1995,
    of a national emergency have not been resolved. The actions of
    significant narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia continue to pose
    an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign
    policy, and economy of the United States and to cause unparalleled
    violence, corruption, and harm in the United States and abroad. For
    these reasons, I have determined that it is necessary to maintain
    economic pressure on significant narcotics traffickers centered in
    Colombia by blocking their property and interests in property that are
    in the United States or within the possession or control of United
    States persons and by depriving them of access to the U.S. market and
    financial system.
                                                    George W. Bush
     The White House,
     October 18, 2007.