[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 127 (Tuesday, July 29, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H7173]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    BLOCKING PROPERTY OF ADDITIONAL PERSONS UNDERMINING DEMOCRATIC 
 PROCESSES OR INSTITUTIONS IN ZIMBABWE--MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF 
                THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 110-138)

  The SPEAKER pro tempore laid before the House the following message 
from the President of the United States; which was read and, together 
with the accompanying papers, without objection, referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed:

To the Congress of the United States:
  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 dependent 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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