[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 222 (Monday, November 19, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65132-65133]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-22559]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Additional Designations of Entities Pursuant to Executive Order 
13405

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control 
(``OFAC'') is publishing the names of two newly-designated entities 
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to 
Executive Order 13405 of June 16, 2006, ``Blocking Property of Certain 
Persons Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Belarus.''

DATES: The designation by the Director of OFAC of the two entities 
identified in this notice, pursuant to Executive Orders 13405, is 
effective November 13, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Compliance 
Outreach & Implementation, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department 
of the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., (Treasury Annex), 
Washington, DC 20220, Tel.: 202/622-2490.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Electronic and Facsimile Availability

    Information about this designation and additional information 
concerning OFAC are available from OFAC's Web site (http://www.treas.gov/ofac) or via facsimile through a 24-hour fax-on-demand 
service, Tel.: 202/622-0077.

Background

    On June 16, 2006, the President issued Executive Order 13405 (the 
``Order'') pursuant to, inter alia, the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-06). In the Order, the President 
declared a national emergency to address political repression, 
electoral fraud, and public

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corruption in Belarus. The Order imposes economic sanctions on persons 
responsible for actions or policies that undermine democratic processes 
or institutions in Belarus. The President identified ten individuals as 
subject to the economic sanctions in the Annex to the Order.
    Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all 
property, and interests in property, that are in, or hereafter come 
within, the United States or the possession or control of United States 
persons for persons listed in the Annex and those persons determined by 
the Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of 
State, to satisfy any of the criteria set forth in subparagraphs 
(a)(ii)(A) through (a)(ii)(E) of Section 1. On November 13, 2007, the 
Director of OFAC exercised the Secretary of the Treasury's authority to 
designate, pursuant to one or more of the criteria set forth in Section 
1, subparagraphs (a)(ii)(A) through (a)(ii)(E) of the Order, the 
following two entities, whose names have been added to the list of 
Specially Designated Nationals and whose property and interests in 
property are blocked, pursuant to Executive Order 13405:

1. BELNEFTEKHIM (a.k.a. BELARUSIAN STATE CONCERN FOR OIL AND 
CHEMISTRY; a.k.a. BELARUSIAN STATE PETROLEUM AND CHEMICALS CONCERN; 
a.k.a. BELNEFTEKHIM CONCERN; a.k.a. CONCERN BELNEFTEKHIM), 73 
Dzerzhinskogo Avenue, Minsk 220116, Belarus; Oederweg 43, Frankfurt-
am-Main D-60318, Germany; ul Trevskaya, 20/1, Room 536, Moscow 
103789, Russia; ul Pavlovskaya, 29, Kiev 01135, Ukraine; Tower B 19-
B Oriental Kenzo, 48 Dongzhimenwai Street, Dongcheng District, 
Beijing 100027, China; GP 1 Apes Street, Riga LV-1039, Latvia 
[BELARUS]
2. BELNEFTEKHIM USA, INC., 13 Branch St.,  213, Methuen, MA 
01844; U.S. FEIN 000920912 (United States) [BELARUS]

    Dated: November 13, 2007.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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