[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 20 (Monday, May 23, 2005)]
[Pages 818-819]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Notice--Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Burma

May 17, 2005

    On May 20, 1997, the President issued Executive Order 13047, 
certifying to the Congress under section 570(b) of the Foreign 
Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 
1997 (Public Law 104-208), that the Government of Burma has committed 
large-scale repression of the democratic opposition in Burma after 
September 30, 1996, thereby invoking the prohibition on new investment 
in Burma by United States persons contained in that section. The 
President also declared a national emergency to deal with the threat 
posed to the national security and foreign policy of the United States 
by the actions and policies of the Government of Burma, invoking the 
authority, inter alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers 
Act, 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq. On July 28, 2003, I issued Executive Order 
13310 taking additional steps with respect to that national emergency by 
putting in place an import ban required by the Burmese Freedom and 
Democracy Act of 2003 and prohibiting exports of financial services to 
Burma and the dealing in property in which certain designated Burmese 
persons have an interest.
    Because the actions and policies of the Government of Burma continue 
to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and 
foreign policy of the

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United States, the national emergency declared on May 20, 1997, and the 
measures adopted on that date to deal with that emergency must continue 
in effect beyond May 20, 2005. Therefore, in accordance with section 
202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am 
continuing for 1 year the national emergency with respect to Burma. This 
notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the 
Congress.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 May 17, 2005.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:29 a.m., May 17, 
2005]

Note: This notice was published in the Federal Register on May 18.