[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 17037]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  NOTICE: 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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