[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 20 (Monday, May 19, 2003)]
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[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Notice--Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Burma

May 16, 2003

    On May 20, 1997, the President issued Executive Order 13047, 
certifying to the Congress under section 570(b) of the Foreign 
Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 
1997 (Public Law 104-208), that the Government of Burma has committed 
large-scale repression of the democratic opposition in Burma after 
September 30, 1996, thereby invoking the prohibition on new investment 
in Burma by United States persons contained in that section. The 
President also declared a national emergency to deal with the threat 
posed to the national security and foreign policy of the United States 
by the actions and policies of the Government of Burma, invoking the 
authority, inter alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers 
Act, 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.
    Because actions and policies of the Government of Burma continue to 
pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and 
foreign policy of the United States, the national emergency declared on 
May 20, 1997, and the measures adopted on that date to deal with that 
emergency must continue in effect beyond May 20, 2003. Therefore, in 
accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 
U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency with 
respect to Burma. This notice shall be published in the Federal Register 
and transmitted to the Congress.
                                                George W. Bush
The White House,
May 16, 2003.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:06 p.m., May 16, 
2003]

Note: This notice was published in the Federal Register on May 19.