[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 93 (Monday, June 28, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7708-S7709]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE ORDER OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CHEMICAL 
 WEAPONS CONVENTION AND THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION IMPLEMENTATION 
                 ACT--MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT--PM 42

  The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the following message 
from the President of the United States, together with an accompanying 
report; which was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs.

To the Congress of the United States:
  On November 14, 1994, in light of the danger of the proliferation of 
nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons (weapons of mass destruction) 
and of the means of delivering such weapons, using my authority under 
the International Emergency Economic Powers

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Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), I issued Executive Order 12938, declaring 
a national emergency to deal with this danger. Because the 
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction continues to pose an 
unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign 
policy, and economy of the United States, I have renewed the national 
emergency declared in Executive Order 12938 annually, most recently on 
November 12, 1998. Pursuant to section 204(b) of the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1703(b)), I hereby report to 
the Congress that I have exercised my statutory authority to further 
amend Executive Order 12938 in order to more effectively respond to the 
worldwide threat of weapons of mass destruction proliferation 
activities.
  The new executive order, which implements the Chemical Weapons 
Convention Implementation Act of 1998, strengthens Executive Order 
12938 by amending section 3 to authorize the United States to implement 
important provisions of the Convention on the Prohibition of the 
Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on 
Their Destruction, a multilateral agreement that serves to reduce the 
threat posed by chemical weapons. Specifically, the amendment enables 
the United States Government to ensure that imports into the United 
States of certain chemicals from any source are permitted in a manner 
consistent with the relevant provisions of the Convention.
                                                  William J. Clinton.  
  The White House, June 25, 1999.

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