[House Document 113-38]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



113th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 113-38

 
CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO THE DISPOSITION 
                   OF RUSSIAN HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM

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                                MESSAGE

                                  from

                   THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

NOTIFICATION OF CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO 
    THE DISPOSITION OF RUSSIAN HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM DECLARED IN 
  EXECUTIVE ORDER 13617 IS TO CONTINUE IN EFFECT BEYOND JUNE 25, 2013






    June 20, 2013.--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, 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 emergency declared in Executive Order 13617 of June 
25, 2012, with respect to the disposition of Russian highly 
enriched uranium is to continue in effect beyond June 25, 2013.
    The risk of nuclear proliferation created by the 
accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile 
material in the territory of the Russian Federation continues 
to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national 
security and foreign policy of the United States. Therefore, I 
have determined that it is necessary to continue the national 
emergency declared in Executive Order 13617 with respect to the 
disposition of Russian highly enriched uranium.

                                                      Barack Obama.
    The White House, June 20, 2013.
                                 Notice

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Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Disposition 
                   of Russian Highly Enriched Uranium

    On June 25, 2012, by Executive Order 13617, 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 risk of 
nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of a large 
volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of 
the Russian Federation.
    Full implementation of the Agreement Between the Government 
of the United States of America and the Government of the 
Russian Federation Concerning the Disposition of Highly 
Enriched Uranium Extracted from Nuclear Weapons, dated February 
18, 1993, and related contracts and agreements (collectively, 
the ``HEU Agreements'') is essential to the attainment of U.S. 
national security and foreign policy goals. Assets of the 
Government of the Russian Federation directly related to the 
implementation of the HEU Agreements may be subject to 
attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or 
other judicial process, thereby jeopardizing the full 
implementation of the HEU Agreements to the detriment of U.S. 
national security and foreign policy. In order to ensure the 
preservation and proper and complete transfer to the Government 
of the Russian Federation of all payments due to it under the 
HEU Agreements, in Executive Order 13617 I ordered the blocking 
of all property and interests in property of the Government of 
the Russian Federation directly related to the implementation 
of the HEU Agreements and declared any attachment, judgment, 
decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or other judicial process 
with respect to such blocked property to be null and void, 
unless licensed or authorized pursuant to Executive Order 13617 
or Executive Order 13159 of June 21, 2000.
    The risk of nuclear proliferation created by the 
accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile 
material in the territory of the Russian Federation continues 
to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national 
security and foreign policy of the United States. For this 
reason, the national emergency declared in Executive Order 
13617 of June 25, 2012, and the measures adopted on that date 
to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond 
June 25, 2013. 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 with 
respect to the disposition of Russian highly enriched uranium 
declared in Executive Order 13617.
    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.
                                                      Barack Obama.
    The White House, June 20, 2013.

                                  
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