[House Document 117-20]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]




117th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 117-20


 
    CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO ZIMBABWE

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                                MESSAGE

                                  from

                     THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

A NOTIFICATION THAT THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARED IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 
  13288 OF MARCH 6, 2003, WITH RESPECT TO THE ACTIONS AND POLICIES OF 
  CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE AND OTHER PERSONS TO 
   UNDERMINE ZIMBABWE'S DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES OR INSTITUTIONS, IS TO 
CONTINUE IN EFFECT BEYOND MARCH 6, 2021, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1622(d); 
            PUBLIC LAW 94-412, SEC. 202(d); (90 STAT. 1257)




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    March 3, 2021.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the 
         Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed
         
         
         
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         	   U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE
				
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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, within 90 days 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 to the 
Federal Register for publication the enclosed notice stating 
that the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13288 
of March 6, 2003, with respect to the actions and policies of 
certain members of the Government of Zimbabwe and other persons 
to undermine Zimbabwe's democratic processes or institutions is 
to continue in effect beyond March 6, 2021.
    President Emmerson Mnangagwa has not made the necessary 
political and economic reforms that would warrant terminating 
the existing targeted sanctions program. Throughout the last 
year, government security services routinely intimidated and 
violently repressed citizens, including members of opposition 
political parties, union members, and journalists. The absence 
of progress on the most fundamental reforms needed to ensure 
the rule of law, democratic governance, and the protection of 
human rights leaves Zimbabweans vulnerable to ongoing 
repression and presents a continuing threat to peace and 
security in the region.
    The actions and policies of certain members of the 
Government of Zimbabwe and other persons to undermine 
Zimbabwe's democratic processes or institutions continue to 
pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy 
of the United States. Therefore, I have determined that it is 
necessary to continue the national emergency declared in 
Executive Order 13288, as amended, with respect to Zimbabwe and 
to maintain in force the sanctions to respond to this threat.

                                               Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
    The White House, March 2, 2021.

                                 Notice

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                Continuation of the National Emergency 
                        With Respect to Zimbabwe

    On March 6, 2003, by Executive Order 13288, the President 
declared a national emergency and blocked the property of 
certain persons, pursuant to the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706), to deal with the 
unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the 
United States constituted by the actions and policies of 
certain members of the Government of Zimbabwe and other persons 
to undermine Zimbabwe's democratic processes or institutions. 
These actions and policies had contributed to the deliberate 
breakdown in the rule of law in Zimbabwe, to politically 
motivated violence and intimidation in that country, and to 
political and economic instability in the southern African 
region.
    On November 22, 2005, the President issued Executive Order 
13391 to take additional steps with respect to the national 
emergency declared in Executive Order 13288 by ordering the 
blocking of the property of additional persons undermining 
democratic processes or institutions in Zimbabwe.
    On July 25, 2008, the President issued Executive Order 
13469, which expanded the scope of the national emergency 
declared in Executive Order 13288 and authorized the blocking 
of the property of additional persons undermining democratic 
processes or institutions in Zimbabwe.
    The actions and policies of certain members of the 
Government of Zimbabwe and other persons to undermine 
Zimbabwe's democratic processes or institutions continue to 
pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy 
of the United States. For this reason, the national emergency 
declared on March 6, 2003, and the measures adopted on that 
date, on November 22, 2005, and on July 25, 2008, to deal with 
that emergency, must continue in effect beyond March 6, 2021. 
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 13288.
    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.

                                               Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
    The White House, March 2, 2021.

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