[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 21 (Monday, February 5, 2007)]
[House]
[Pages H1167-H1168]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  CONTINUING NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH REGARD TO COTE D'IVOIRE--MESSAGE 
      FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 110-11)

  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 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

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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, stating that the national emergency 
and related measures blocking the property of certain persons 
contributing to the conflict in Cote d'Ivoire are to continue in effect 
beyond February 7, 2007.
  The situation in or in relation to Cote d'Ivoire, which has been 
addressed by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 1572 of 
November 15, 2004, and subsequent resolutions, has resulted in the 
massacre of large numbers of civilians, widespread human rights abuses, 
significant political violence and unrest, and attacks against 
international peacekeeping forces leading to fatalities. This situation 
poses a continuing unusual and extraordinary threat to the national 
security and foreign policy of the United States. For these reasons, I 
have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency 
and related measures blocking the property of certain persons 
contributing to the conflict in Cote d'Ivoire.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House,February 5, 2007.

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