[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 9 (Monday, January 14, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2721-2722]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-00549]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Designation of Entities Pursuant to Executive Order 13413

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 name of two entities whose property and 
interests in property have been blocked pursuant to Executive Order 
13413 of October 27,

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2006, ``Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the 
Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.''

DATES: The designation by the Director of OFAC of the two entities 
identified in this notice, pursuant to Executive Order 13413 of October 
27, 2006, is effective on January 3, 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director for Sanctions 
Compliance and Evaluation, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department 
of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220, tel.: 202/622-2490.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Electronic and Facsimile Availability

    This document and additional information concerning OFAC are 
available from OFAC's Web site (www.treas.gov/ofac) and via facsimile 
through a 24-hour fax-on demand service, tel.: (202) 622-0077.

Background

    On October 27, 2006, the President signed Executive Order 13413 
(the ``Order'' or ``E.O. 13413'') pursuant to, inter alia, the 
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) 
(IEEPA) and section 5 of the United Nations Participation Act, as 
amended (22 U.S.C. 287c) (UNPA). In the Order, the President found that 
the situation in or in relation to the Democratic Republic of the Congo 
constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy 
of the United States and imposed sanctions, and authorized additional 
sanctions, to address that threat.
    Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all 
property and interests in property that are in, or thereafter come 
within, the United States, or within the possession or control of 
United States persons, of the persons identified by the President in 
the Annex to the Order, as well as those persons determined by the 
Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of 
State, to meet any of the criteria set forth in subparagraphs 
(a)(ii)(A)-(a)(ii)(G) of Section 1 of the Order.
    On January 3, 2013, 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 of the Order, the two entities listed 
below, whose property and interests in property therefore are blocked 
pursuant to E.O. 13413. The listing of the blocked entities appears as 
follows:
    1. FORCES DEMOCRATIQUES DE LIBERATION DU RWANDA (a.k.a. COMBATANT 
FORCE FOR THE LIBERATION OF RWANDA; a.k.a. DEMOCRATIC FORCES FOR THE 
LIBERATION OF RWANDA; a.k.a. FDLR; a.k.a. ``FOCA''; a.k.a. FORCE 
COMBATTANTE ABACUNGUZI), North and South Kivu, Congo, Democratic 
Republic of the [DRCONGO]
    2. M23 (a.k.a. ARMEE REVOLUTIONAIRE CONGOLAISE; a.k.a. CONGOLESE 
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY; a.k.a. MARCH 23 MOVEMENT; a.k.a. MOUVEMENT DU 23 
MARS), North-Kivu, Congo, Democratic Republic of the; Web site 
www.m23mars.org [DRCONGO]

    Dated: January 3, 2013.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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