[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 42, Number 20 (Monday, May 22, 2006)]
[Pages 958-959]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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

May 18, 2006

    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

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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 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, 2006. 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 18, 2006.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:56 p.m., May 18, 
2006]

Note: This notice was published in the Federal Register on May 19.