    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 46 (Monday, November 17, 1997)]
    [Pages 1785-1786]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Notice--Continuation of Emergency Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction

    November 12, 1997

        On November 14, 1994, by Executive Order 12938, I declared a
    national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat
    to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United

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    States posed by the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical
    weapons (``weapons of mass destruction'') and the means of delivering
    such weapons. Because the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
    and the means of delivering them continue to pose an unusual and
    extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and
    economy of the United States, the national emergency declared on
    November 14, 1994, and extended on November 14, 1995 and November 14,
    1996, must continue in effect beyond November 14, 1997. Therefore, in
    accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50
    U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing the national emergency declared in
    Executive Order 12938.
        This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and
    transmitted to the Congress.
                                                William J. Clinton
    The White House,
    November 12, 1997.

    [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:40 a.m., November 12,
    1997]

    Note: This notice was published in the Federal Register on November 13.