For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 29, 2003
Message to the Congress of the United States
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. Consistent 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 delivery systems declared by Executive Order 12938 on November
14, 1994, as amended, is to continue in effect beyond November 14,
2003. The most recent notice continuing this emergency was signed on
November 6, 2002, and published in the Federal Register on November 12,
2002 (67 Fed. Reg. 68493).
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, 2003.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 29, 2003.
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