U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

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69–011 2008

110th Congress, 2d Session – – – – – – – – – – – – House Document 110–126 

CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY 

WITH RESPECT TO THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 

MESSAGE 

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRANSMITTING

NOTIFICATION STATING THAT THE EMERGENCY DECLARED WITH 

RESPECT TO THE RISK OF NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION CREATED 

BY THE ACCUMULATION OF A LARGE VOLUME OF WEAPONSUSABLE FISSILE MATERIAL IN THE TERRITORY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IS TO CONTINUE BEYOND JUNE 21, 2008, 

PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1622(d) 

JUNE 19, 2008.—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, 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 emergency declared in Executive Order 13159 

of June 21, 2000, with respect to the risk of nuclear proliferation 

created by the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable 

fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation is to continue beyond June 21, 2008. 

It remains a major national security goal of the United States to 

ensure that fissile material removed from Russian nuclear weapons 

pursuant to various arms control and disarmament agreements is 

dedicated to peaceful uses, subject to transparency measures, and 

protected from diversion to activities of proliferation concern. The 

accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material 

in the territory of the Russian Federation continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign 

policy of the United States. For this reason, I have determined that 

it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared with respect to the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation and maintain in force these emergency authorities to respond to this threat. 

GEORGE W. BUSH. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, June 18, 2008. 


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NOTICE

CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO

THE RISK OF NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION CREATED BY THE ACCUMULATION OF WEAPONS-USABLE FISSILE MATERIAL IN THE TERRITORY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

On June 21, 2000, President Clinton issued Executive Order 

13159 (the ‘‘order’’) blocking property and interests in property of 

the Government of the Russian Federation that are in the United 

States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are 

or hereafter come within the possession or control of United States 

persons that are directly related to the implementation of the 

Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Russian Federation Concerning the 

Disposition of Highly Enriched Uranium Extracted from Nuclear 

Weapons, dated February 18, 1993, and related contracts and 

agreements (collectively, the ‘‘HEU Agreements’’) . The HEU Agreements allow for the downblending of highly enriched uranium derived from nuclear weapons to low enriched uranium for peaceful 

commercial purposes. The order invoked the authority, inter alia, 

of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 

1701 et seq.) and declared a national emergency to deal with the 

unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation. 

The national emergency declared on June 21, 2000, must continue beyond June 21, 2008, to provide continued protection from 

attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or 

other judicial process for the property and interests in property of 

the Government of the Russian Federation that are directly related 

to the implementation of the HEU Agreements and subject to U.S. 

jurisdiction. 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 the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation. This notice shall 

be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress. 

GEORGE W. BUSH. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, June 18, 2008. 

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