[House Document 109-125]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



                                     

109th Congress, 2d Session - - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 109-125

 
     CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO LIBERIA

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                             COMMUNICATION

                                  from

                   THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              TRANSMITTING

NOTIFICATION THAT THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO LIBERIA IS TO 
 CONTINUE IN EFFECT BEYOND JULY 22, 2006, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1622(d)




 July 19, 2006.--Referred to the Committee on International Relations 
                       and ordered to be printed
To the Congress of the United States:
    Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 
1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination of a national 
emergency unless, prior to the anniversary date of its 
declaration, the President publishes in the Federal Register 
and transmits to the Congress a notice stating that the 
emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. 
In accordance with this provision, I have sent the enclosed 
notice to the Federal Register for publication, stating that 
the national emergency and related measures blocking the 
property of certain persons and prohibiting the importation of 
certain goods from Liberia are to continue in effect beyond 
July 22, 2006. The most recent notice continuing this emergency 
was published in the Federal Register on July 21, 2005 (70 FR 
41935).
    The actions and policies of former Liberian President 
Charles Taylor and his close associates, in particular their 
unlawful depletion of Liberian resources and their removal from 
Liberia and secreting of Liberian funds and property, continue 
to undermine Liberia's transition to democracy and the orderly 
development of its political, administrative, and economic 
institutions and resources. These actions and policies pose a 
continuing unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign 
policy of the United States. For these reasons, I have 
determined that it is necessary to continue the national 
emergency and related measures blocking the property of certain 
persons and prohibiting the importation of certain goods from 
Liberia.

                                                    George W. Bush.
    The White House, July 18, 2006.
                                 NOTICE

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  Continuation of the National Emergency Blocking Property of Certain 
 Persons and Prohibiting the Importation of Certain Goods From Liberia

    On July 22, 2004, by Executive Order 13348, I declared a 
national emergency and ordered related measures blocking the 
property of certain persons and prohibiting the importation of 
certain goods from Liberia, pursuant to the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706). I took 
this action to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat 
to the foreign policy of the United States constituted by the 
actions and policies of former Liberian President Charles 
Taylor and other persons, in particular their unlawful 
depletion of Liberian resources and their removal from Liberia 
and secreting of Liberian funds and property, which have 
undermined Liberia's transition to democracy and the orderly 
development of its political, administrative, and economic 
institutions and resources. I further noted that the 
Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed on August 18, 2003, and 
the related ceasefire had not yet been universally implemented 
throughout Liberia, and that the illicit trade in round logs 
and timber products was linked to the proliferation of and 
trafficking in illegal arms, which perpetuated the Liberian 
conflict and fueled and exacerbated other conflicts throughout 
West Africa.
    Today, Liberia is making a transition to a peaceful, 
democratic order under the new administration of President 
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Charles Taylor is in the custody of the 
Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague. However, the 
stability in Liberia is fragile. The actions and policies of 
Charles Taylor and others have left a legacy of destruction 
that still has the potential to undermine Liberia's 
transformation and recovery.
    Because the actions and policies of these persons continue 
to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign 
policy of the United States, the national emergency declared on 
July 22, 2004, and the measures adopted on that date to deal 
with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond July 22, 
2006. 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 declared in Executive Order 
13348.
    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.
                                                    George W. Bush.
    The White House, July 18, 2006.

                                  
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