[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 24 (Monday, June 18, 2001)]
[Page 880]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Message to the Congress on Continuation of the National Emergency With 
Respect to Russia

June 11, 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. I have sent the enclosed notice to the Federal 
Register for publication. This notice states that the emergency declared 
with respect to the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable 
fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation is to 
continue beyond June 21, 2001.
    It remains a major national security goal of the United States to 
ensure that fissile material removed from Russian nuclear weapons 
pursuant to various arms control and disarmament agreements is dedicated 
to peaceful uses, subject to transparency measures, and protected from 
diversion to activities of proliferation concern. The accumulation of a 
large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the 
Russian Federation continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat 
to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. For 
this reason, I have determined that it is necessary to maintain in force 
these emergency authorities beyond June 21, 2001.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 June 11, 2001.

Note: This message was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
June 12.