[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 45 (Monday, November 15, 1999)]
[Pages 2330-2331]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Notice--Continuation of Emergency Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction

November 10, 1999

    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, 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, 
November 13, 1997, and November 12, 1998, must continue in effect beyond 
November 14, 1999. 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 10, 1999.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:15 p.m., November 10, 
1999]

Note: This notice was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
November 10, and it was published in the Federal Register on November 
12.

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