[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 43, Number 19 (Monday, May 14, 2007)]
[Pages 599-600]
[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 Export of Certain Goods to Syria

May 8, 2007

    On May 11, 2004, pursuant to my authority under the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) and the Syria 
Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003 (Public 
Law 108-175), I issued Executive Order 13338 in which I declared a 
national emergency authorizing the blocking of property of certain 
persons and prohibiting the exportation or reexportation of certain 
goods to Syria. On April 25, 2006, I issued Executive Order 13399 to 
expand the scope of this national emergency. I took these actions to 
deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, 
foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the 
actions of the Government of Syria in supporting terrorism, maintaining 
its then-existing occupation of Lebanon, pursuing weapons of mass 
destruction and missile programs, and undermining United States and 
international efforts with respect to the stabilization and 
reconstruction of Iraq.
    Because the actions and policies of the Government of Syria continue 
to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, 
foreign policy, and economy of the United States, the national emergency 
declared on May 11, 2004, and the measures adopted on that date and on 
April 25, 2006, in Executive Order 13399, to deal with that emergency, 
must continue in effect beyond May 11, 2007. 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 authorizing the 
blocking of property of certain persons and prohibiting the exportation 
or reexportation of certain goods to Syria.
    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 May 8, 2007.

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 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:51 a.m., May 9, 
2007]

Note: This notice was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
May 9, and it was published in the Federal Register on May 10.