[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 44, Number 5 (Monday, February 11, 2008)]
[Page 153]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Notice--Continuation of the National Emergency Blocking Property of 
Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in Cote d'Ivoire

February 5, 2008

    On February 7, 2006, by Executive Order 13396, I declared a national 
emergency and ordered related measures blocking the property of certain 
persons contributing to the conflict in Cote d'Ivoire, 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 national security and foreign policy of the United States 
constituted by the situation in or in relation to Cote d'Ivoire, which 
has been addressed by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 
1572 of November 15, 2004, and subsequent resolutions, and has resulted 
in the massacre of large numbers of civilians, widespread human rights 
abuses, significant political violence and unrest, and attacks against 
international peacekeeping forces leading to fatalities. Because the 
situation in or in relation to Cote d'Ivoire continues to pose an 
unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign 
policy of the United States, the national emergency declared on February 
7, 2006, and the measures adopted on that date to deal with that 
emergency, must continue in effect beyond February 7, 2008. 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 
declared in Executive Order 13396.
    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 February 5, 2008.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 1:49 p.m., February 5, 
2008]

Note: This notice was published in the Federal Register on February 6.