Bill Clinton: “I hereby report that I have exercised my statutory authority to…”

On the recordJanuary 18, 2001

I hereby report that I have exercised my statutory authority to declare a national emergency in response to the unusual and extraordinary threat posed to the foreign policy of the United States by Sierra Leone's insurgent Revolutionary United Front's (RUF's) illicit trade in diamonds.

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Bill Clinton

Democratic · Arkansas

Source

presidency.ucsb.edu

Editor's note · Context

Letter to Congressional Leaders on the Prohibition of Importation of Rough Diamonds From Sierra Leone

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Bill Clinton: “I hereby report that I have exercised my statutory authority to declare a national emergency in response to the unusual…”

Editor's note · Context