[House Document 111-115]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


111th Congress, 2d Session - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 111-115
 
CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO BURMA

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                                MESSAGE

                                  from

                     THEPRESIDENTOFTHEUNITEDSTATES

                              transmitting

NOTIFICATION THAT THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARED WITH RESPECT TO BURMA 
   IS TO CONTINUE BEYOND MAY 20, 2010, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1622(d)

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    May 14, 2010.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the 
         Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed
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. 
I have sent the enclosed notice to the Federal Register for 
publication, stating that the Burma emergency is to continue in 
effect beyond May 20, 2010.
    The crisis between the United States and Burma arising from 
the actions and policies of the Government of Burma, including 
its engaging in large-scale repression of the democratic 
opposition in Burma, that led to the declaration of a national 
emergency in Executive Order 13047 of May 20, 1997, as modified 
in scope and relied upon for additional steps taken in 
Executive Order 13310 of July 28, 2003, Executive Order 13448 
of October 18, 2007, and Executive Order 13464 of April 30, 
2008, has not been resolved. These actions and policies are 
hostile to U.S. interests and pose a continuing unusual and 
extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign 
policy of the United States. For this reason, I have determined 
that it is necessary to continue the national emergency with 
respect to Burma and maintain in force the sanctions against 
Burma to respond to this threat.
                                                      Barack Obama.
    The White House, May 13, 2010.
                                 Notice

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      Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Burma

    On May 20, 1997, the President issued Executive Order 
13047, certifying to the Congress under section 570(b) of the 
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 1997 (Public Law 104-208), that the 
Government of Burma had committed large-scale repression of the 
democratic opposition in Burma after September 30, 1996, 
thereby invoking the prohibition on new investment in Burma by 
United States persons contained in that section. The President 
also declared a national emergency to deal with the threat 
posed to the national security and foreign policy of the United 
States by the actions and policies of the Government of Burma, 
invoking the authority, inter alia, of the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.
    Because the actions and policies of the Government of Burma 
continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the 
national security and foreign policy of the United States, the 
national emergency declared on May 20, 1997, and the measures 
adopted on that date, on July 28, 2003, in Executive Order 
13310, on October 18, 2007, in Executive Order 13448, and on 
April 30, 2008, in Executive Order 13464 to deal with that 
emergency, must continue in effect beyond May 20, 2010. 
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 Burma. This notice shall 
be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the 
Congress.

                                                      Barack Obama.
    The White House, May 13, 2010.