[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 4 (Monday, January 28, 2002)]
[Page 113]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Message to the Congress Transmitting a Report on the National Emergency 
With Respect to Russia

January 23, 2002

To the Congress of the United States:

    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, 50 U.S.C. 1703(c), I transmit herewith a 6-month 
periodic report on the national emergency with respect to the risk of 
nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of weapons-usable 
fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation that was 
declared in Executive Order 13159 of June 21, 2000.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 January 23, 2002.

Note: This message was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
January 24.