[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 42, Number 9 (Monday, March 6, 2006)]
[Pages 362-363]
[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 Zimbabwe

February 27, 2006

To the Congress of the United States:

    Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) 
provides for

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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 persons undermining democratic processes or 
institutions in Zimbabwe is to continue in effect beyond March 6, 2006. 
The most recent notice continuing this emergency was published in the 
Federal Register on March 4, 2005 (70 FR 10859).
    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 this national emergency 
and to maintain in force the sanctions to respond to this threat.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 February 27, 2006.

Note: This message was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
February 28.