[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 12 (Thursday, January 19, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6686-6687]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-01223]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 9858]


Additional Designation of Syrian Entity Pursuant to E.O. 13382

ACTION: Designation of the Organization for Technological Industries 
(OTI) Pursuant to E.O. 13382.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the authority in section 1(ii) of E.O. 13382, 
``Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators and 
Their Supporters'', the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and 
International Security, in consultation with the Secretary of the 
Treasury and the Attorney General, has determined that the Syrian 
entity Organization for Technological Industries (OTI) has engaged, or 
attempted to engage, in activities or transactions that have materially 
contributed to, or pose a risk of materially contributing to, the 
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or their means of delivery 
(including missiles capable of delivering such weapons), including any 
efforts to manufacture, acquire, possess, develop, transport, transfer 
or use such items, by any person or foreign country of proliferation 
concern.

DATES:  Effective Dates: The designation of and additional identifying 
information for the entity identified in this notice pursuant to E.O. 
13382 is effective upon publication of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Director, Office of 
Counterproliferation Initiatives, Bureau of International Security and 
Nonproliferation, Department of State, Washington, DC 20520, tel.: 202-
647-5193.

Background

    On June 28, 2005, the President, invoking the authority, inter 
alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 
1701-1706) (``IEEPA''), issued E.O. 13382 (70 FR 38567, July 1, 2005) 
(the ``Order''), effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on June 
30, 2005. In the Order the President took additional steps with respect 
to the national emergency described and declared in E.O. 12938 of 
November 14, 1994, regarding the proliferation of weapons of mass 
destruction and the means of delivering them.
    Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all 
property and interests in property that are in the United States, or 
that hereafter come within the United States or that are or hereafter 
come within the possession or control of United States persons, of: (1) 
The persons listed in the Annex to the Order; (2) any foreign person 
determined by the Secretary of State, in consultation with the 
Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, and other relevant 
agencies, to have engaged, or attempted to engage, in activities or 
transactions that have materially contributed to, or pose a risk of 
materially contributing to, the proliferation of weapons of mass 
destruction or their means of delivery (including missiles capable of 
delivering such weapons), including any efforts to manufacture, 
acquire, possess, develop, transport, transfer or use such items, by 
any person or foreign country of proliferation concern; (3) any person 
determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and other relevant agencies, 
to have provided, or attempted to provide, financial, material, 
technological or other support for, or goods or services in support of, 
any activity or transaction described in clause (2) above or any person 
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to the 
Order; and (4) any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and 
other relevant agencies, to be owned or controlled by, or acting or 
purporting to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any 
person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to 
the Order.
    Information on the additional designee is as follows:

(U) Organization for Technological Industries
(U) Name: Organization for Technological Industries
(U) AKA: The Organization for Technical Industries
(U) Address: Sham Algadida OTip Box Damascus-11037, Syrian Arab 
Republic


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    Dated: January 12, 2017.
Thomas M. Countryman,
Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, 
Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2017-01223 Filed 1-18-17; 8:45 am]
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