[House Document 110-140]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]






110th Congress, 2d Session - - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 110-140



 
       CONTINUATION OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO LEBANON

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                                MESSAGE

                                  from

                     THEPRESIDENTOFTHEUNITEDSTATES

                              transmitting

NOTIFICATION THAT THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO THE ACTIONS OF 
    CERTAIN PERSONS TO UNDERMINE THE SOVEREIGNTY OF LEBANON OR ITS 
 DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES AND INSTITUTIONS IS TO CONTINUE IN EFFECT BEYOND 
             AUGUST 1, 2008, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1622(d)




    July 31, 2008.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the 
         Committee on Foreign Affairs 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 persons undermining the sovereignty of Lebanon or its 
democratic processes and institutions and certain other persons 
are to continue in effect beyond August 1, 2008.
    The actions of certain persons to undermine Lebanon's 
legitimate and democratically elected government or democratic 
institutions, to contribute to the deliberate breakdown in the 
rule of law in Lebanon, including through politically motivated 
violence and intimidation, to reassert Syrian control or 
contribute to Syrian interference in Lebanon, or to infringe 
upon or undermine Lebanese sovereignty contribute to political 
and economic instability in that country and the region and 
constitute a continuing unusual and extraordinary threat to the 
national security and 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 persons undermining the sovereignty of Lebanon 
or its democratic processes and institutions and certain other 
persons.

                                                    George W. Bush.
    The White House, July 30, 2008.
                                 Notice

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 Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Actions of 
    Certain Persons To Undermine the Sovereignty of Lebanon or Its 
                 Democratic Processes and Institutions

    On August 1, 2007, by Executive Order 13441, I declared a 
national emergency and ordered related measures blocking the 
property of certain persons undermining the sovereignty of 
Lebanon or its democratic processes or institutions and certain 
other persons, 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 national 
security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by 
the actions of certain persons to undermine Lebanon's 
legitimate and democratically elected government or democratic 
institutions, to contribute to the deliberate breakdown in the 
rule of law in Lebanon, including through politically motivated 
violence and intimidation, to reassert Syrian control or 
contribute to Syrian interference in Lebanon, or to infringe 
upon or undermine Lebanese sovereignty which contributes to 
political and economic instability in that country and the 
region.
    Because these actions continue to pose an unusual and 
extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign 
policy of the United States, the national emergency declared on 
August 1, 2007, and the measures adopted on that date to deal 
with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond August 1, 
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 declared in Executive Order 
13441.
    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.

                                                    George W. Bush.
    The White House, July 30, 2008.

                                  
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