U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

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19–011 2012

112th Congress, 2d Session – – – – – – – – – – – – House Document 112–139 

CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY 

WITH RESPECT TO PERSONS WHO COMMIT, 

THREATEN TO COMMIT, OR SUPPORT TERRORISM 

MESSAGE 

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRANSMITTING

NOTIFICATION THAT THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARED 

WITH RESPECT TO PERSONS WHO COMMIT, THREATEN TO COMMIT, OR SUPPORT TERRORISM IS TO CONTINUE IN EFFECT BEYOND SEPTEMBER 23, 2012, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1622(d) 

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012.—Message and accompanying papers referred to the 

Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed 


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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, within the 90-day period 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 

with respect to persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism is to continue in effect beyond September 23, 2012. 

The crisis constituted by the grave acts of terrorism and threats 

of terrorism committed by foreign terrorists, including the terrorist 

attacks on September 11, 2001, in New York and Pennsylvania and 

against the Pentagon, and the continuing and immediate threat of 

further attacks on United States nationals or the United States 

that led to the declaration of a national emergency on September 

23, 2001, has not been resolved. These actions pose a continuing 

unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign 

policy, and economy of the United States. For these reasons, I have 

determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency 

declared with respect to persons who commit, threaten to commit, 

or support terrorism, and maintain in force the comprehensive 

sanctions to respond to this threat. 

BARACK OBAMA. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, September 11, 2012. 


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NOTICE

CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO

PERSONS WHO COMMIT, THREATEN TO COMMIT, OR SUPPORT TERRORISM

On September 23, 2001, by Executive Order 13224, the President 

declared a national emergency with respect to persons who commit, 

threaten to commit, or support terrorism, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701–1706). 

The President took this action to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the grave acts of terrorism 

and threats of terrorism committed by foreign terrorists, including 

the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, in New York and 

Pennsylvania and against the Pentagon, and the continuing and 

immediate threat of further attacks against United States nationals or the United States. Because the actions of these persons who 

commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism continue to pose 

an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, the national emergency declared on September 23, 2001, and the measures adopted 

on that date to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect 

beyond September 23, 2012. Therefore, in accordance with section 

202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am 

continuing for 1 year the national emergency with respect to persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism. 

This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress. 

BARACK OBAMA. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, September 11, 2012. 

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