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National Emergency Designation for Iraq Extended

The White House announced it will continue the national emergency designation for Iraq another year, to May 22, 2014. Obstacles to the country's continued reconstruction, restoration and maintenance of peace and security in the country and the development of political…

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and economic institutions "continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States," the White House said in its May 17 message to Congress about the extension (here). Iraq was first designated a national emergency country in 2003.