    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 25 (Monday, June 21, 2004)]
    [Page 1090]
    [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 the Risk of Nuclear Proliferation Created by the Accumulation
    of Weapons-Usable Fissile Material in the Territory of the Russian
    Federation

    June 16, 2004

    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, stating that
    the emergency declared with respect to the accumulation of a large
    volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the
    Russian Federation is to continue beyond June 21, 2004. The most recent
    notice continuing this emergency was published in the Federal Register
    on June 12, 2003 (68 Fed. Reg. 35149).
        It remains a major national security goal of the United States to
    ensure that fissile material removed from Russian nuclear weapons
    pursuant to various arms control and disarmament agreements is dedicated
    to peaceful uses, subject to transparency measures, and protected from
    diversion to activities of proliferation concern. The accumulation of a
    large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the
    Russian Federation continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat
    to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. For
    this reason, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the
    national emergency declared with respect to the accumulation of a large
    volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the
    Russian Federation and maintain in force these emergency authorities to
    respond to this threat.
                                                    George W. Bush
     The White House,
     June 16, 2004.