[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 84 (Tuesday, June 10, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H5154]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 CONTINUATION OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY CREATED BY ACCUMULATION OF WEAPONS-
  USABLE FISSILE MATERIAL IN THE TERRITORY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION--
  MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 108-84)

  The SPEAKER pro tempore laid before the House the following message 
from the President of the United States; which was read and, together 
with the accompanying papers, without objection, referred to the 
Committee on International Relations 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. In accordance with this provision, I have sent the 
enclosed notice, stating that the emergency declared with respect to 
the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material 
in the territory of the Russian Federation is to continue beyond June 
21, 2003, to the Federal Register for publication. The most recent 
notice continuing this emergency was published in the Federal Register 
on June 20, 2002 (67 FR 42181).
  It remains a major national security goal of the United States to 
ensure that fissile material removed from Russian nuclear weapons 
pursuant to various arms control and disarmament agreements is 
dedicated to peaceful uses, subject to transparency measures, and 
protected from diversion to activities of proliferation concern. 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, I have determined that it is 
necessary to continue the national emergency declared with respect to 
the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material 
in the territory of the Russian Federation and maintain in force these 
emergency authorities to respond to this threat.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, June 10, 2003.

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