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99–011 2002

107th Congress, 2d Session – – – – – – – – – – – – House Document 107–165

CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH

RESPECT TO SIERRA LEONE AND LIBERIA

COMMUNICATION

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

TRANSMITTING

NOTIFICATION THAT THE SIERRA LEONE AND LIBERIA EMERGENCY IS TO CONTINUE IN EFFECT BEYOND JANUARY 18, 2002,

PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1622(d)

JANUARY 23, 2002.—Referred to the Committee on International Relations

and ordered to be printed

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THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, January 15, 2002.

Hon. J. DENNIS HASTERT,

Speaker of the House of Representatives,

Washington, DC.

DEAR MR. 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, 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, stating that the

Sierra Leone and Liberia emergency is to continue in effect beyond

January 18, 2002, to the Federal Register for publication. This is

the first renewal of the Sierra Leone and Liberia emergency.

The national emergency declared with respect to Sierra Leone on

January 18, 2001, as expanded on May 22, 2001, with respect to

Liberia, has not been resolved. The national emergency, as expanded, was declared to deal with the threat posed to United

States foreign policy by (1) the insurgent Revolutionary United

Front’s (RUF) illicit trade in diamonds to fund its operations and

procurement of weapons in the brutal, decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone; (2) the RUF’s flagrant violation of the Lom ́ e Peace

Agreement of July 7, 1999; (3) the RUF’s attacks on personnel of

the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone; and (4) the actions of

the Government of Liberia in support of the RUF. These actions

and policies are hostile to U.S. interests and pose a continuing, unusual, and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United

States. For these reasons, I have determined that it is necessary

to continue the national emergency declared with respect to Sierra

Leone and Liberia and to maintain in force the sanctions imposed

in response to the threat posed by the actions and policies of the

RUF.

Sincerely,

GEORGE W. BUSH.

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NOTICE

CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO

SIERRA LEONE AND LIBERIA

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 to 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, 2002. 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 15, 2002.

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