For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
November 12, 2002
Message 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, 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, 2002, to the Federal Register for
publication. The most recent notice continuing this emergency was
published in the Federal Register on November 13, 2001 (66 FR 56965).
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. Therefore, I have determined the national emergency previously
declared must continue in effect beyond November 14, 2002.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
November 6, 2002.
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