[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 34 (Monday, August 30, 1999)]
[Pages 1662-1663]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting a Report on the National 
Emergency With Respect
to Iraq

August 24, 1999

Dear Mr. Speaker:  (Dear Mr. President:)

    As required by section 401(c) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 
U.S.C. 1641(c) and section 204(c) of the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), 50 U.S.C. 1703(c), I transmit herewith a 6-
month periodic report on the national emergency with respect to Iraq 
that was declared in Executive Order 12722 of August 2, 1990.
    Sincerely,
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: Identical letters were sent to J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the 
House of Representatives, and Albert Gore, Jr., President of the Senate. 
This letter was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on August 
25.

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