    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2008, Book II)]
    [July 25, 2008]
    [Pages 1052-1053]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Message to the Congress on Blocking Property of Additional Persons
    Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Zimbabwe
    July 25, 2008

    To the Congress of the United States:
        Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as
    amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby report that I have
    issued an Executive Order (the ``order'') that expands the scope of the
    national emergency declared in Executive Order 13288 of March 6, 2003,
    which was relied upon for additional steps taken in Executive Order
    13391 of November 22, 2005, and takes additional steps with respect to
    that national emergency.
        In Executive Order 13288, I found that the actions and policies of
    certain members of the Government of Zimbabwe and other persons to
    undermine Zimbabwe's democratic processes or institutions constituted an
    unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United
    States and declared a national emergency to deal with that threat.
    Executive Order 13288 blocks the property and interests in property of
    the persons listed in its Annex and permits the designation of any
    person or entity owned or controlled by, or acting or purporting to act
    directly or indirectly for or on behalf of, any person listed in that
    Annex.
        Executive Order 13391 took additional steps to address the national
    emergency declared in Executive Order 13288 and amended the provisions
    of that earlier order. Executive Order 13391 blocks the property of the
    persons and entities listed in its Annex and permits the designation of
    any person or entity determined: to have engaged in actions or policies
    to undermine Zimbabwe's democratic processes or institutions; to have
    materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or
    technological support for, or goods or services in support of, such
    actions or policies or any person whose property and interests in
    property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13288, as amended; to
    be or have been an immediate family member of any person whose property
    and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13288,
    as amended; or 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 Executive
    Order 13288, as amended.
        I have now determined that the continued actions and policies of the
    Government of Zimbabwe and other persons to undermine Zimbabwe's
    democratic processes or institutions, manifested most recently in the
    fundamentally undemocratic election held on June 27, 2008, to commit
    acts of violence and other human rights abuses against political
    opponents, and to engage in public corruption, including the misuse of
    public authority, warrant an expansion of the existing national
    emergency and the existing sanctions with respect to

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    Zimbabwe. The order supplements the designation criteria set forth in
    Executive Order 13288, as amended by Executive Order 13391, and provides
    additional criteria for designation of any person determined by the
    Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of
    State: to be a senior official of the Government of Zimbabwe; to be
    owned or controlled by, directly or indirectly, the Government of
    Zimbabwe or an official or officials of the Government of Zimbabwe; to
    be responsible for, or to have participated in, human rights abuses
    related to political repression in Zimbabwe; to be engaged in, or to
    have engaged in, activities facilitating public corruption by senior
    officials of the Government of Zimbabwe; or to have materially assisted,
    sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical
    support for, or goods or services in support of, the Government of
    Zimbabwe, any senior official thereof, or any person whose property and
    interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13288,
    Executive Order 13391, or the order.
        The order also restates existing designation authority to block the
    property and interests in property of persons determined to have engaged
    in actions or policies to undermine Zimbabwe's democratic processes or
    institutions. Finally, the order restates existing derivative
    designation authority and adds derivative designation authority to block
    the property and interests in property of persons determined by the
    Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of
    State, to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to
    act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, or to be a spouse or
    dependant child of, any person whose property and interests in property
    are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13288, Executive Order 13391, or
    the order.
        In the order, I delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury, after
    consultation with the Secretary of State, the authority to take such
    actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations, as may be
    necessary to carry out the purposes of the order.
        I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order I have issued.

                                                              George W. Bush

     The White House,

     July 25, 2008.

    Note: The Executive order is listed in Appendix D at the end of this
    volume.