[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 88 (Monday, June 20, 2011)]
[House]
[Pages H4331-H4332]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO THE RISK OF 
  NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION CREATED BY THE ACCUMULATION OF WEAPONS-USABLE 
 FISSILE MATERIAL IN THE TERRITORY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION--MESSAGE 
      FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 112-36)

  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 ( 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 emergency declared in 
Executive Order 13159 of June 21, 2000, with respect to the risk of 
nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of a large volume of 
weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian 
Federation is to continue beyond June 21, 2011.
  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 risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of a 
large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the 
Russian Federation and maintain in force

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these emergency authorities to respond to this threat.
                                                        Barack Obama.  
The White House, June 17, 2011.

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