[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 25 (Monday, June 24, 2002)]
[Page 1040]
[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

June 18, 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 prepared by my Administration 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,
 June 18, 2002.

Note: This message was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
June 19.