[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 29 (Monday, July 25, 2005)]
[Pages 1191-1192]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Message to the Congress on Continuation of the National Emergency 
Blocking Property of Certain Persons and Prohibiting the Importation of 
Certain Goods from Liberia

July 19, 2005

To the Congress of the United States:

    Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) 
provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, 
prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President 
publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice 
stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the 
anniversary date. In accordance with the provision, I have sent the 
enclosed notice to the Federal Register for publication stating that the 
national emergency and related measures blocking the property of certain 
persons and prohibiting the importation of certain goods from Liberia 
are to continue in effect beyond July 22, 2005.
    The actions and policies of former Liberian President Charles Taylor 
and other persons, in particular their unlawful depletion of Liberian 
resources and their removal from Liberia and secreting of Liberian funds 
and property, continue to undermine Liberia's transition to democracy 
and the orderly development of its political, administrative, and 
economic institutions and resources. These actions and policies pose a 
continuing unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the 
United States. For these reasons, I have determined that it is necessary 
to continue the national emergency and related measures blocking the 
property of certain persons and prohibiting the importation of certain 
goods from Liberia.
                                                George W. Bush
The White House,
July 19, 2005.

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