[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 26 (Monday, July 4, 2005)]
[Pages 1092-1093]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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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 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

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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 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.