[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 43 (Monday, October 31, 2005)]
[Pages 1594-1595]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Message to the Congress on Continuation of the National Emergency 
Regarding the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

October 25, 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 
emergency posed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and 
their means of delivery declared by Executive Order

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12938 on November 14, 1994, as amended, is to continue in effect beyond 
November 14, 2005. The most recent notice continuing this emergency was 
signed on November 4, 2004, and published in the Federal Register on 
November 8, 2004 (69 FR 64637).
    Because the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the 
means of delivering them continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary 
threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the 
United States, I have determined the national emergency previously 
declared must continue in effect beyond November 14, 2005.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 October 25, 2005.