[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 9 (Monday, March 5, 2001)]
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[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Message to the Congress Transmitting a Notice on Continuation of the 
National Emergency With Respect to Cuba

February 27, 2001

To the Congress of the United States:

    Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) 
provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, 
prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President 
publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice 
stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the 
anniversary date. In accordance with this provision, I have sent the 
enclosed notice to the Federal Register for publication, which states 
that the emergency declared with respect to the Government of Cuba's 
destruction of two unarmed U.S.-registered civilian aircraft in 
international airspace north of Cuba on February 24, 1996, is to 
continue in effect beyond March 1, 2001.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 February 27, 2001.