[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16505]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  CONTINUATION OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO LIBERIA--MESSAGE 
      FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 109-48)

  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 Reqister and transmits to the Congress a 
notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the 
anniversary date.
  In accordance with the provision, I have sent the enclosed notice to 
the Federal Reqister for publication stating that the national 
emergency and related measures blocking the property of certain persons 
and prohibiting the importation of certain goods from Liberia are to 
continue in effect beyond July 22, 2005.
  The actions and policies of former Liberian President Charles Taylor 
and other persons, in particular their unlawful depletion of Liberian 
resources and their removal from Liberia and secreting of Liberian 
funds and property, continue to undermine Liberia's transition to 
democracy and the orderly development of its political, administrative, 
and economic institutions and resources. These actions and policies 
pose a continuing unusual and extraor- dinary threat to the 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 and prohibiting the importat' 
on of certain goods from Liberia.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, July 19, 2005.

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