Obama Extends National Emergency on Russian Nuke Material

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RIA Novosti, PUBLISHED June 22, 2013

US President Barack Obama has ordered a one-year extension of the US national emergency over Russian fissile material suitable for use in nuclear weapons.

Obama submitted a notice of the extension for publication in the US Federal Register on Thursday.

“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,” Obama said in a message to the US Congress accompanying the notice.

“Therefore…I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency declared with respect to the disposition of Russian highly enriched uranium declared in Executive Order 13617 [of June 25, 2012],” he said.

The national emergency over Russian nuke material was declared in Executive Order 13159 of June 21, 2000 by the then-president Bill Clinton. It has been extended annually ever since.

The extension of the emergency is necessary to support the execution of a 1993 Moscow-Washington agreement on eliminating highly enriched uranium removed from Russian nuclear warheads (the so-called HEU-LEU agreement).

Topics: USA, Russia, Uranium

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