For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 3, 2004
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. In accordance with this provision, I have sent the
enclosed notice to the Federal Register for publication. It states
that the national emergency blocking the property of persons
undermining democratic processes or institutions in Zimbabwe is to
continue in effect beyond March 6, 2004.
The crisis caused 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 declared on March 6, 2003, 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, 2004.
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