U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

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19–011 2012

112th Congress, 2d Session – – – – – – – – – – – – – House Document 112–97 

CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY 

WITH RESPECT TO SOMALIA 

COMMUNICATION 

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRANSMITTING

NOTIFICATION THAT THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT 

TO SOMALIA ORIGINALLY DECLARED ON APRIL 12, 2010, BY EXECUTIVE ORDER 13536, IS TO CONTINUE IN EFFECT BEYOND 

APRIL 12, 2012, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1622(d) 

APRIL 19, 2012.—Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 

ordered to be printed 


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THE WHITE HOUSE, 

Washington, April 10, 2012. 

Hon. JOHN A. BOEHNER, 

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, 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 declared in Executive Order 13536 of April 12, 2010, is to 

continue in effect beyond April 12, 2012. 

The fragile security situation and the persistence of violence in 

Somalia, and acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea off the coast 

of Somalia, which have repeatedly been the subject of United Nations Security Council resolutions, and violations of the Somalia 

arms embargo imposed by the United Nations Security Council, 

continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. For these 

reasons, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency with respect to Somalia and related measures 

blocking the property of certain persons contributing to the conflict 

in Somalia. 

Sincerely, 

BARACK OBAMA. 


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NOTICE

CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO

SOMALIA

On April 12, 2010, by Executive Order 13536, I 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 and foreign policy 

of the United States constituted by the fragile security situation 

and the persistence of violence in Somalia, and acts of piracy and 

armed robbery at sea off the coast of Somalia, which have repeatedly been the subject of United Nations Security Council resolutions, and violations of the Somalia arms embargo imposed by the 

United Nations Security Council. 

Because the situation with respect to Somalia continues to pose 

an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and 

foreign policy of the United States, the national emergency declared on April 12, 2010, and the measures adopted on that date 

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

12, 2012. 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 declared in Executive Order 13536. 

This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress. 

BARACK OBAMA. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, April 10, 2012. 

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