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Notice: Continuation of National Emergency with Respect to Weapons of Mass
Destruction
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For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary November 10, 2008

Notice: Continuation of National Emergency with Respect to Weapons of Mass
Destruction

ÿÿWhite House News


On November 14, 1994, by Executive Order 12938, the President declared a
national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to
the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States
posed by the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons
(weapons of mass destruction) and the means of delivering such weapons. On
July 28, 1998, the President issued Executive Order 13094 amending
Executive Order 12938 to respond more effectively to the worldwide threat
of weapons of mass destruction proliferation activities. On June 28, 2005,
I issued Executive Order 13382 that, inter alia, further amended Executive
Order 12938 to improve our ability to combat proliferation. 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, the
national emergency first declared on November 14, 1994, and extended in
each subsequent year, must continue. 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 declared in Executive Order 12938, as amended.

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

GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

November 10, 2008.

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