For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 17, 2001

Six-Month Periodic Report
To the Congress of the United States

    As required by section 401(c) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1641(c), and 204(c) of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(c), I transmit herewith a 6-month periodic report on the national emergency with respect to significant narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia that was declared in Executive Order 12978 of October 21, 1995.

                              GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

     October 16, 2001.

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