[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 31 (Monday, August 4, 2003)]
[Pages 1022-1023]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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

July 31, 2003

    On August 2, 1990, by Executive Order 12722, President Bush declared 
a national emergency with respect to Iraq pursuant to the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the 
unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign 
policy of the United States constituted by the actions and policies of 
the Government of Iraq--the Saddam Hussein regime. By Executive Orders 
12722 of August 2, 1990, and 12724 of August 9, 1990, the President 
imposed trade sanctions on Iraq and blocked Iraqi government assets. 
Additional measures were taken with respect to this national emergency 
by Executive Order 13290 of March 20, 2003. Because of the continued 
instability in Iraq, the United States and Coalition partners' role as 
the temporary authority in Iraq, and the need to ensure the 
establishment of a process leading to representative Iraqi self-rule, 
the national emergency declared on August 2, 1990, and the measures 
adopted on August 2 and August 9, 1990, and March 20, 2003, to deal with 
that emergency must continue in effect beyond August 2, 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 Iraq.

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    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 July 31, 2003.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:45 a.m., July 31, 
2003]

Note: This notice was published in the Federal Register on August 1.