    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 9 (Monday, March 4, 2002)]
    [Page 301]
    [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 Cuba

    February 26, 2002

    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, 2002.
                                                    George W. Bush
     The White House,
     February 26, 2002.

    Note: This message was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on
    February 27.