Federal Register: May 9, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 91)
DOCID: fr09my08-150 FR Doc 08-1248
Presidential Documents
Veterans Affairs Department
NOTICE: Part VI
DOCID: fr09my08-150
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
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Title 3--
The President
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Notice of May 7, 2008
Continuation of the National Emergency Blocking
Property of Certain Persons and Prohibiting the Export of Certain Goods to Syria
On May 11, 2004, pursuant to my authority under the
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C.
1701-1706) and the Syria Accountability and Lebanese
Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-
175), I issued Executive Order 13338, in which I
declared a national emergency with respect to the
actions of the Government of Syria. To deal with this
national emergency, Executive Order 13338 authorized
the blocking of property of certain persons and
prohibited the exportation or re-exportation of certain
goods to Syria. On April 25, 2006, and February 13,
2008, I issued Executive Order 13399 and Executive
Order 13460, respectively, to take additional steps with respect to this national emergency.
I took these actions to deal with the unusual and
extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign
policy, and economy of the United States constituted by
the actions of the Government of Syria in supporting
terrorism, maintaining its then-existing occupation of
Lebanon, pursuing weapons of mass destruction and
missile programs including the recent revelation of
illicit nuclear cooperation with North Korea, and
undermining U.S. and international efforts with respect
to the stabilization and reconstruction of Iraq.
Because the actions and policies of the Government of
Syria 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 May 11, 2004, and the measures adopted on
that date and on April 25, 2006, in Executive Order
13399, and on February 13, 2008, in Executive Order
13460, to deal with that emergency, must continue in
effect beyond May 11, 2008. 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 authorizing the blocking of property
of certain persons and prohibiting the exportation or re-exportation of certain goods to Syria.
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This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
May 7, 2008.
[FR Doc. 08-1248
Filed 5-8-08; 9:26 am]
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