[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 46 (Monday, November 16, 1998)]
[Pages 2300-2301]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Notice--Continuation of Emergency Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction

November 12, 1998

    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 
States posed by the proliferation of nuclear,

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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 continues 
to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, 
foreign policy, and economy of the United States, the national emergency 
first declared on November 14, 1994, and extended on November 14, 1995, 
November 12, 1996, and November 13, 1997, must continue in effect beyond 
November 14, 1998. 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, 1998.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 1:20 p.m., November 12, 
1998]

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