    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 9 (Monday, March 7, 2005)]
    [Pages 352-353]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Message to the Congress on Continuation of the National Emergency
    Blocking Property of Persons Undermining Democratic Processes or
    Institutions in Zimbabwe

    March 2, 2005

    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 to the
    Federal Register for publication the enclosed notice stating that the
    national emergency blocking the property of

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    persons undermining democratic processes or institutions in Zimbabwe is
    to continue in effect beyond March 6, 2005. The most recent notice
    continuing this emergency was published in the Federal Register on March
    5, 2004 (69 FR 10313).
        The crisis constituted by the actions and policies of certain
    members of the Government of Zimbabwe and other persons to undermine
    Zimbabwe's democratic processes or institutions has not been resolved.
    These actions and policies pose a continuing unusual and extraordinary
    threat to the foreign policy of the United States. For these reasons, I
    have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency
    blocking the property of persons undermining democratic processes or
    institutions in Zimbabwe and to maintain in force the sanctions to
    respond to this threat.

                                                    George W. Bush

     The White House,
     March 2, 2005.