[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 139 (Thursday, July 21, 2005)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-14555]


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 The President

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                Notice of July 19, 2005

                
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 cease-fire have not yet been 
                universally implemented throughout Liberia, and that 
                the illicit trade in round logs and timber products is 
                linked to the proliferation of and trafficking in 
                illegal arms, which perpetuate the Liberian conflict 
                and fuel and exacerbate other conflicts throughout West 
                Africa.

                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, 2005. Therefore, in 
                accordance with section 202(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.

                    (Presidential Sig.)B

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                     July 19, 2005.

[FR Doc. 05-14555
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