[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 38 (Wednesday, March 4, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2764-S2765]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  NOTICE RELATIVE TO THE CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH 
     RESPECT TO THE ACTIONS AND POLICIES OF CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE 
   GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE AND OTHER PERSONS TO UNDERMINE ZIMBABWE'S 
              DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES OR INSTITUTIONS--PM 10

  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:
  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, stating that 
the national emergency with respect to the actions and policies of 
certain members of the Government of Zimbabwe and other persons to 
undermine Zimbabwe's democratic processes or institutions is to 
continue in effect beyond March 6, 2009.
  The crisis constituted by the actions and policies of certain members 
of the Government of Zimbabwe and other persons to undermine Zimbabwe's 
democratic processes or institutions

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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 this national emergency and to maintain in force the sanctions 
to respond to this threat.
                                                        Barack Obama.  
The White House, March 3, 2009.

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