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

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Notice--Continuation of the National Emergency Blocking Property of 
Certain Persons and Prohibiting the Importation of Certain Goods from 
Liberia

July 19, 2005

    On July 22, 2004, by Executive Order 13348, I declared a national 
emergency and ordered related measures blocking the property of certain 
persons and prohibiting the importation of certain goods from Liberia, 
pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 
1701-1706). I took this action to deal with the unusual and 
extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United States 
constituted by 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, which have undermined Liberia's transition 
to democracy and the orderly development of its political, 
administrative, and economic institutions and resources. I further noted 
that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed on August 18, 2003, and 
the related cease-fire have not yet been universally implemented 
throughout Liberia, and that the illicit trade in round logs and timber 
products is linked to the proliferation of and trafficking in illegal 
arms, which perpetuate the Liberian conflict and fuel and exacerbate 
other conflicts throughout West Africa.
    Because the actions and policies of these persons continue to pose 
an unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United 
States, the national emergency declared on July 22, 2004, and the 
measures adopted on that date to deal with that emergency, must continue 
in effect beyond July 22, 2005. Therefore, in accordance with section 
202(d), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency declared in 
Executive Order 13348.
    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.
                                                George W. Bush
The White House,
July 19, 2005.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., July 20, 
2005]

Note: This notice was published in the Federal Register on July 21.