[House Document 117-66]
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CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO SIGNIFICANT
NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS CENTERED IN COLOMBIA
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COMMUNICATION
from
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
transmitting
NOTIFICATION THAT THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY, WITH RESPECT TO SIGNIFICANT
NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS CENTERED IN COLOMBIA DECLARED IN EXECUTIVE ORDER
12978 OF OCTOBER 21, 1995, IS TO CONTINUE IN EFFECT BEYOND OCTOBER 21,
2021, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1622(d); PUBLIC LAW 94-412, SEC. 202(d);
(90 STAT. 1257)
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October 15, 2021.--Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and
ordered to be printed
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U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE
29-011 WASHINGTON : 2021
The White House,
Washington, October 12, 2021.
Hon. Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
Dear Madam Speaker: Section 202(d) of the National
Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides for the automatic
termination of a national emergency unless, within 90 days
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 to the Federal Register for publication the
enclosed notice stating that the national emergency with
respect to significant narcotics traffickers centered in
Colombia declared in Executive Order 12978 of October 21, 1995,
is to continue in effect beyond October 21, 2021.
The circumstances that led to the declaration of a national
emergency on October 21, 1995, 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 an extreme level of violence,
corruption, and harm in the United States and abroad. For this
reason, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the
national emergency declared in Executive Order 12978 with
respect to significant narcotics traffickers centered in
Colombia.
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Notice
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Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Significant
Narcotics Traffickers Centered in Colombia
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 et
seq.) 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 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 cause an extreme level of violence,
corruption, and harm in the United States and abroad. For this
reason, the national emergency declared in Executive Order
12978 of October 21, 1995, must continue in effect beyond
October 21, 2021. Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d)
of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. l622(d)), I am
continuing for 1 year the national emergency with respect to
significant narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia declared
in Executive Order 12978.
This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and
transmitted to the Congress.
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
The White House, October 12, 2021.
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