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Executive Order: Blocking Property of Additional Persons Undermining
Democratic Processes or Institutions in Zimbabwe
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For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary July 25, 2008

Executive Order: Blocking Property of Additional Persons Undermining
Democratic Processes or Institutions in Zimbabwe

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States of America, including the International Emergency
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National
Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3,
United States Code,

I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find 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
by misusing public authority, constitute an unusual and extraorðdinary
threat to the foreign policy of the United States, and to deal with that
threat, hereby expand the scope of the national emergency declared in
Executive Order 13288 of March 6, 2003, and relied upon for additional
steps taken in Executive Order 13391 of November 22, 2005, and hereby
order:

Section 1. (a) Except to the extent provided by statutes, or provided in
regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to
this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or
permit granted prior to the date of this order, all property and interests
in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the
United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or
control of United States persons, including their overseas branches, of the
following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported,
withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in:

Any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation
with the Secretary of State:

(i) to be a senior official of the Government of Zimbabwe;

(ii) to be owned or controlled by, directly or indirectly, the Government
of Zimbabwe or an official or officials of the Government of Zimbabwe;

(iii) to have engaged in actions or policies to undermine Zimbabwe's
democratic processes or institutions;

(iv) to be responsible for, or to have participated in, human rights abuses
related to political repression in Zimbabwe;

(v) to be engaged in, or to have engaged in, activities facilitating public
corruption by senior officials of the Government of Zimbabwe;

(vi) to be a spouse or dependent child of any person whose property and
interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13288,
Executive Order 13391, or this order;

(vii) 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 this order; or

(viii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported 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,
Executive Order 13391, or this order.

(b) I hereby determine that the making of donations of the type of articles
specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, to, or
for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are
blocked pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section would seriously impair my
ability to deal with the national emergency declared in Executive Order
13288, as amended, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by
paragraph (a) of this section.

(c) The prohibitions of this section include but are not limited to (i) the
making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by,
to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in
property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13288, Executive Order
13391, or this order, and (ii) the receipt of any contribution or provision
of funds, goods, or services from any such person.

(d) The provisions of Executive Orders 13288 and 13391 remain in effect,
and this order does not affect any action taken pursuant to those orders.

Sec. 2. (a) Any transaction by a United States person or within the United
States that evades or avoids, has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or
attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is
prohibited.

(b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in
this order is prohibited.

Sec. 3. For the purposes of this order:

(a) the term "person" means an individual or entity;

(b) the term "entity" means a partnership, association, trust, joint
venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization;

(c) the term "United States person" means any United States citizen,
permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United
States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign
branches), or any person in the United States; and

(d) the term "Government of Zimbabwe" means the Government of Zimbabwe, its
agencies, instrumentalities, and controlled entities.

Sec. 4. For those persons whose property and interests in property are
blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in
the United States, I find that, because of the ability to transfer funds or
other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to
be taken pursuant to this order would render these measures ineffectual. I
therefore determine that, for these measures to be effective in addressing
the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13288, there need be no
prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 1 of
this order.

Sec. 5. The Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the
Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including
the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted
to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of
this order. The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of these
functions to other officers and agencies of the United States Government
consistent with applicable law. All agencies of the United States
Government are hereby directed to take all appropriate measures within
their authority to carry out the provisions of this order.

Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the
Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to submit the recurring and final
reports to the Congress on the national emergency declared in Executive
Order 13288, as amended, and expanded in this order, consistent with
section 401(c) of the NEA (50 U.S.C. 1641(c)) and section 204(c) of IEEPA
(50 U.S.C. 1703).

Sec. 7. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or
benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any
party against the United States, its departments, agencies,
instrumentalities, or entities, its officers or employees, or any other
person.

GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

July 25, 2008.

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