[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 3, 2011)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 24787-24789]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-10910]


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 The President

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                Executive Order 13572 of April 29, 2011

                
Blocking Property of Certain Persons With Respect 
                to Human Rights Abuses in Syria

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, including the International Emergency Economic 
                Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the 
                National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and 
                section 301 of title 3, United States Code,

                I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of 
                America, hereby expand the scope of the national 
                emergency declared in Executive Order 13338 of May 11, 
                2004, and relied upon for additional steps taken in 
                Executive Order 13399 of April 25, 2006, and in 
                Executive Order 13460 of February 13, 2008, finding 
                that the Government of Syria's human rights abuses, 
                including those related to the repression of the people 
                of Syria, manifested most recently by the use of 
                violence and torture against, and arbitrary arrests and 
                detentions of, peaceful protestors by police, security 
                forces, and other entities that have engaged in human 
                rights abuses, constitute an unusual and extraordinary 
                threat to the national security, foreign policy, and 
                economy of the United States, and I hereby order:

                Section 1. All property and interests in property that 
                are in the United States, that hereafter come within 
                the United States, or that are or hereafter come within 
                the possession or control of any United States person, 
                including any overseas branch, of the following persons 
                are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, 
                withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in:

                    (a) the persons listed in the Annex to this order; 
                and
                    (b) any person determined by the Secretary of the 
                Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State:

(i) to be responsible for or complicit in, or responsible for ordering, 
controlling, or otherwise directing, or to have participated in, the 
commission of human rights abuses in Syria, including those related to 
repression;

(ii) to be a senior official of an entity whose property and interests in 
property are blocked pursuant to this order;

(iii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, 
material, or technological support for, or goods or services in support of, 
the activities described in subsection (b)(i) of this section or any person 
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive 
Order 13338, Executive Order 13460, or this order; or

(iv) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for 
or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and 
interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13460 or this 
order.

                Sec. 2. I hereby determine that the making of donations 
                of the type of articles specified in section 203(b)(2) 
                of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, to, or for the 
                benefit of any person whose property and interests in 
                property are blocked pursuant to section 1 of this 
                order would seriously impair my ability to deal with 
                the national emergency declared in Executive Order 
                13338 and expanded in this order, and I hereby prohibit 
                such donations as provided by section 1 of this order.

                Sec. 3. The prohibitions in section 1 of this order 
                include but are not limited to:

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                    (a) the making of any contribution or provision of 
                funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of 
                any person whose property and interests in property are 
                blocked pursuant to this order; and
                    (b) the receipt of any contribution or provision of 
                funds, goods, or services from any such person.

                Sec. 4. The prohibitions in section 1 of this order 
                apply except to the extent provided by statutes, or in 
                regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may 
                be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding 
                any contract entered into or any license or permit 
                granted prior to the effective date of this order.

                Sec. 5. (a) Any transaction by a United States person 
                or within the United States that evades or avoids, has 
                the purpose of evading or avoiding, causes a violation 
                of, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set 
                forth in this order is prohibited.

                    (b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the 
                prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.

                Sec. 6. For the purposes of this order:

                    (a) the term ``person'' means an individual or 
                entity;
                    (b) the term ``entity'' means a partnership, 
                association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, 
                subgroup, or other organization;
                    (c) the term ``United States person'' means any 
                United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity 
                organized under the laws of the United States or any 
                jurisdiction within the United States (including 
                foreign branches), or any person in the United States; 
                and
                    (d) the term ``Government of Syria'' means the 
                Government of the Syrian Arab Republic, its agencies, 
                instrumentalities, and controlled entities.

                Sec. 7. For those persons whose property and interests 
                in property are blocked pursuant to this order who 
                might have a constitutional presence in the United 
                States, I find that because of the ability to transfer 
                funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to 
                such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this 
                order would render those measures ineffectual. I 
                therefore determine that for these measures to be 
                effective in addressing the national emergency declared 
                in Executive Order 13338 and expanded in this order, 
                there need be no prior notice of a listing or 
                determination made pursuant to section 1 of this order.

                Sec. 8. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
                with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to 
                take such actions, including the promulgation of rules 
                and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to 
                the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to carry out 
                the purposes of this order. The Secretary of the 
                Treasury may redelegate any of these functions to other 
                officers and agencies of the United States Government 
                consistent with applicable law. All agencies of the 
                United States Government are hereby directed to take 
                all appropriate measures within their authority to 
                carry out the provisions of this order.

                Sec. 9. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
                with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to 
                determine that circumstances no longer warrant the 
                blocking of the property and interests in property of a 
                person listed in the Annex to this order, and to take 
                necessary action to give effect to that determination.

                Sec. 10. This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
                entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person.

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                Sec. 11. This order is effective at 1:00 p.m. eastern 
                daylight time on April 29, 2011. 
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    April 29, 2011.

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