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Message To the Congress of the United States
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For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary July 25, 2008

Message To the Congress of the United States

ÿÿWhite House News


Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as amended (50
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby report that I have issued an
Executive Order (the "order") that expands the scope of the national
emergency declared in Executive Order 13288 of March 6, 2003, which was
relied upon for additional steps taken in Executive Order 13391 of November
22, 2005, and takes additional steps with respect to that national
emergency.

In Executive Order 13288, I found that the actions and policies of certain
members of the Government of Zimbabwe and other persons to undermine
Zimbabwe's democratic processes or institutions constituted an unusual and
extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United States and
declared a national emergency to deal with that threat. Executive Order
13288 blocks the property and interests in property of the persons listed
in its Annex and permits the designation of any person or entity owned or
controlled by, or acting or purporting to act directly or indirectly for or
on behalf of, any person listed in that Annex.

Executive Order 13391 took additional steps to address the national
emergency declared in Executive Order 13288 and amended the provisions of
that earlier order. Executive Order 13391 blocks the property of the
persons and entities listed in its Annex and permits the designation of any
person or entity determined: to have engaged in actions or policies to
undermine Zimbabwe's democratic processes or institutions; to have
materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or
technological support for, or goods or services in support of, such actions
or policies or any person whose property and interests in property are
blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13288, as amended; to be or have been
an immediate family member of any person whose property and interests in
property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13288, as amended; or to
be owned or controlled by, or acting or purporting to act for or on behalf
of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in
property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13288, as amended.

I have now determined that the continued actions and policies of the
Government of Zimbabwe and other persons to undermine Zimbabwe's democratic
processes or institutions, manifested most recently in the fundamentally
undemocratic election held on June 27, 2008, to commit acts of violence and
other human rights abuses against political opponents, and to engage in
public corruption, including the misuse of public authority, warrant an
expansion of the existing national emergency and the existing sanctions
with respect to Zimbabwe. The order supplements the designation criteria
set forth in Executive Order 13288, as amended by Executive Order 13391,
and provides additional criteria for designation of any person determined
by the Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of
State: to be a senior official of the Government of Zimbabwe; to be owned
or controlled by, directly or indirectly, the Government of Zimbabwe or an
official or officials of the Government of Zimbabwe; to be responsible for,
or to have participated in, human rights abuses related to political
repression in Zimbabwe; to be engaged in, or to have engaged in, activities
facilitating public corruption by senior officials of the Government of
Zimbabwe; or to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial,
material, logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services in
support of, the Government of Zimbabwe, any senior official thereof, or any
person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to
Executive Order 13288, Executive Order 13391, or the order.

The order also restates existing designation authority to block the
property and interests in property of persons determined to have engaged in
actions or policies to undermine Zimbabwe's democratic processes or
institutions. Finally, the order restates existing derivative designation
authority and adds derivative designation authority to block the property
and interests in property of persons determined by the Secretary of the
Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of State, to be owned or
controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of,
directly or indirectly, or to be a spouse or dependant child of, any person
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive
Order 13288, Executive Order 13391, or the order.

In the order, I delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury, after
consultation with the Secretary of State, the authority to take such
actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations, as may be
necessary to carry out the purposes of the order.

I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order I have issued.

GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

July 25, 2008.

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