[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 121 (Monday, June 24, 2013)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 37925-37926]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-15235]


 
 
                         Presidential Documents 
 
 

  Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 121 / Monday, June 14, 2013 / 
Presidential Documents  

[[Page 37925]]


                Notice of June 20, 2013

                
Continuation of the National Emergency With 
                Respect to the Disposition of Russian Highly Enriched 
                Uranium

                On June 25, 2012, by Executive Order 13617, I declared 
                a national emergency pursuant to the International 
                Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to 
                deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the 
                national security and foreign policy of the United 
                States constituted by 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.

                Full implementation of the Agreement Between the 
                Government of the United States of America and the 
                Government of the Russian Federation Concerning the 
                Disposition of Highly Enriched Uranium Extracted from 
                Nuclear Weapons, dated February 18, 1993, and related 
                contracts and agreements (collectively, the ``HEU 
                Agreements'') is essential to the attainment of U.S. 
                national security and foreign policy goals. Assets of 
                the Government of the Russian Federation directly 
                related to the implementation of the HEU Agreements may 
                be subject to attachment, judgment, decree, lien, 
                execution, garnishment, or other judicial process, 
                thereby jeopardizing the full implementation of the HEU 
                Agreements to the detriment of U.S. national security 
                and foreign policy. In order to ensure the preservation 
                and proper and complete transfer to the Government of 
                the Russian Federation of all payments due to it under 
                the HEU Agreements, in Executive Order 13617 I ordered 
                the blocking of all property and interests in property 
                of the Government of the Russian Federation directly 
                related to the implementation of the HEU Agreements and 
                declared any attachment, judgment, decree, lien, 
                execution, garnishment, or other judicial process with 
                respect to such blocked property to be null and void, 
                unless licensed or authorized pursuant to Executive 
                Order 13617 or Executive Order 13159 of June 21, 2000.

                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 continues to pose an unusual and 
                extraordinary threat to the national security and 
                foreign policy of the United States. For this reason, 
                the national emergency declared in Executive Order 
                13617 of June 25, 2012, and the measures adopted on 
                that date to deal with that emergency, must continue in 
                effect beyond June 25, 2013. Therefore, in accordance 
                with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 
                U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the 
                national emergency declared with respect to the 
                disposition of Russian highly enriched uranium declared 
                in Executive Order 13617.

[[Page 37926]]

                This notice shall be published in the Federal Register 
                and transmitted to the Congress.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    June 20, 2013.

[FR Doc. 2013-15235
Filed 6-21-13; 11:15 am]
Billing code 3295-F3