THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release                                   October 19, 2000


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 for 1 year beyond October
21, 2000.

     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 pressures on significant narcotics traffickers centered in
Colombia by blocking their property subject to the jurisdiction of the
United States and by depriving them of access to the United States
market and financial system.

                                   WILLIAM J. CLINTON

                                   THE WHITE HOUSE,
                                   October 19, 2000.

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