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39–011 2013

113th Congress, 1st Session – – – – – – – – – – – – – House Document 113–66 

CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY 

WITH RESPECT TO SIGNIFICANT NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS CENTERED IN COLOMBIA 

MESSAGE 

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRANSMITTING

NOTIFICATION THAT THE EMERGENCY DECLARED WITH RESPECT 

TO SIGNIFICANT NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS CENTERED IN COLOMBIA IS TO CONTINUE IN EFFECT FOR ONE YEAR BEYOND 

OCTOBER 21, 2013, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1622(d) 

OCTOBER 16, 2013.—Message and accompanying papers referred to the 

Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed 


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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, 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, 2013. 

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 an 

extreme level of violence, corruption, and harm in the United 

States and abroad. For these reasons, 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. 

BARACK OBAMA. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, October 16, 2013. 


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NOTICE

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 with respect to significant narcotics 

traffickers centered in Colombia 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 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. For 

these reasons, the national emergency declared in Executive Order 

12978 of October 21, 1995, and the measures adopted pursuant 

thereto to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond 

October 21, 2013. 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 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. 

BARACK OBAMA. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, October 16, 2013. 

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