    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2005, Book I)]
    [June 28, 2005]
    [Pages 1079-1081]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Message to the Congress on Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass
    Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters
    June 28, 2005

    To the Congress of the United States:
        Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50
    U.S.C. 1701 et seq. (IEEPA), I hereby report that I have issued an
    Executive Order that takes additional steps with respect to the national
    emergency declared in Executive Order 12938 of November 14, 1994,
    regarding the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and the
    means of delivering

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    them, and the measures imposed by that order, as expanded by Executive
    Order 13094 of July 28, 1998.
        This order is designed to combat WMD trafficking by blocking the
    property of persons that engage in proliferation activities and their
    support networks. It is intended to advance international cooperative
    efforts against WMD financing, including with our G-8 partners and
    through the Proliferation Security Initiative. This order also provides
    a model for other nations to follow in adopting laws to stem the flow of
    financial and other support for proliferation activities, as decided in
    United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540. It further implements a
    key recommendation of the Silberman-Robb WMD Commission.
        Executive Order 12938, as amended, authorizes the Secretary of State
    to impose certain measures against foreign persons (individuals or
    entities) determined to have materially contributed to the proliferation
    efforts of any foreign country, project, or entity of proliferation
    concern. The measures that the Secretary of State may choose to impose
    under Executive Order 12938, as amended, are a ban on U.S. Government
    procurement from the designated foreign person; a ban on U.S. Government
    assistance to the designated foreign person; and a ban on imports from
    the designated foreign person.
        Recognizing the need for additional tools to defeat the
    proliferation of WMD, I have signed the new order, which authorizes the
    imposition of a new measure--blocking--against WMD proliferators and
    their support networks. This action, sometimes referred to as freezing,
    will apply to property and interests in property of persons designated
    under the order and will deny such persons access to the U.S. financial
    and commercial systems. Modeled after Executive Order 13224 of September
    23, 2001, the new order provides broad new authorities to target not
    only persons engaged in proliferation activities, but also those
    providing support or services to such proliferators.
        In particular, the order blocks the property and interests in
    property in the United States, or in 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 WMD or their
    means of delivery (including missiles capable of delivering such
    weapons) 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, proliferation-related activities or any person 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 blocked person.
        In addition, the order amends section 4(a) of Executive Order 12938,
    as amended, by conforming the criteria for determining that a foreign
    person has engaged in activity described in that order to the criteria
    for designations by the Secretary of State set forth in section 1(a)(ii)
    of the new order. Executive Order 12938, as amended, will continue to be
    an important tool to combat WMD proliferation.
        Actions taken under the order become effective on June 29, 2005. The
    new order recognizes the need for more robust tools to defeat the
    proliferation of WMD around

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    the world. The steps that we are undertaking in this new order form yet
    another part of our evolving response to this challenge.

                                                              George W. Bush

     The White House,

     June 28, 2005.

    Note: This message was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on
    June 30. The Executive order of June 28 is listed in Appendix D at the
    end of this volume.