[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 50 (Thursday, April 7, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H2514]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO SOMALIA--MESSAGE 
      FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 112-16)

  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, 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 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 to the 
Federal Register for publication the enclosed notice stating that the 
national emergency declared in Executive Order 13536 of April 12, 2010, 
is to continue in effect beyond April 12, 2011.
  The deterioration of the security situation and the persistence of 
violence in Somalia, and acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea off 
the coast of Somalia, which have repeatedly been the subject of United 
Nations Security Council resolutions, and violations of the Somalia 
arms embargo imposed by the United Nations Security Council, continue 
to pose an 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 with 
respect to Somalia and related measures blocking the property of 
certain persons contributing to the conflict in Somalia.
                                                        Barack Obama.  
The White House, April 7, 2011.

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