[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 26 (Wednesday, March 3, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H784]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    CONTINUATION OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY BLOCKING PROPERTY OF PERSONS 
 UNDERMINING DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES OR INSTITUTIONS IN ZIMBABWE--MESSAGE 
     FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 108-168)

  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 to the Federal Register for publication. It states that 
the national emergency blocking the property of persons undermining 
democratic processes or institutions in Zimbabwe is to continue in 
effect beyond March 6, 2004.
  The crisis caused by the actions and policies of certain members of 
the Government of Zimbabwe and other persons to undermine Zimbabwe's 
democratic processes or institutions has not been resolved. These 
actions and policies pose a continuing, unusual, and extraordinary 
threat to the foreign policy of the United States. For these reasons, I 
have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency 
declared on March 6, 2003, blocking the property of persons undermining 
democratic processes or institutions in Zimbabwe and to maintain in 
force the sanctions to respond to this threat.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
                                        The White House, March 2, 2004.




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