[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 51 (Monday, December 23, 2002)]
[Page 2175]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting a 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

December 17, 2002

Dear Mr. Speaker:  (Dear Mr. President:)

    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 am transmitting 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.
     Sincerely,
                                                George W. Bush

Note: Identical letters were sent to J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the 
House of Representatives, and Richard B. Cheney, President of the 
Senate.