[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 44, Number 29 (Monday, July 28, 2008)]
[Pages 1025-1027]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13469--Blocking Property of Additional Persons 
Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Zimbabwe

July 25, 2008

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the 
National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of 
title 3, United States Code,
     I, George W. Bush, President of the United States of America, find 
that the continued actions and policies of the Government of Zimbabwe 
and other persons to undermine Zimbabwe's democratic processes or 
institutions, manifested most recently in the fundamentally undemocratic 
election held on June 27, 2008, to commit acts of violence and other 
human rights abuses against political opponents, and to engage in public 
corruption, including by misusing public authority, constitute an 
unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United 
States, and to deal with that threat, hereby expand the scope of the 
national emergency declared in Executive Order 13288 of March 6, 2003, 
and relied upon for additional steps taken in Executive Order 13391 of 
November 22, 2005, and hereby order:
    Section 1. (a) Except to the extent provided by statutes, or 
provided in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be 
issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered 
into or any license or permit granted prior to the date of this order, 
all property and interests in property that are in the United States, 
that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter 
come within the possession or control of United States persons, 
including

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their overseas branches, of the following persons are blocked and may 
not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in:
    Any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, after 
consultation with the Secretary of State:
     (i) to be a senior official of the Government of Zimbabwe;
     (ii) to be owned or controlled by, directly or indirectly, the 
      Government of Zimbabwe or an official or officials of the 
      Government of Zimbabwe;
     (iii) to have engaged in actions or policies to undermine 
      Zimbabwe's democratic processes or institutions;
     (iv) to be responsible for, or to have participated in, human 
      rights abuses related to political repression in Zimbabwe;
     (v) to be engaged in, or to have engaged in, activities 
      facilitating public corruption by senior officials of the 
      Government of Zimbabwe;
     (vi) to be a spouse or dependent child of any person whose property 
      and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 
      13288, Executive Order 13391, or this order;
     (vii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided 
      financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or 
      goods or services in support of, the Government of Zimbabwe, any 
      senior official thereof, or any person whose property and 
      interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 
      13288, Executive Order 13391, or this order; or
     (viii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported 
      to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person 
      whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to 
      Executive Order 13288, Executive Order 13391, or this order.
    (b) I hereby determine that the making of donations of the type of 
articles specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) 
by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in 
property are blocked pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section would 
seriously impair my ability to deal with the national emergency declared 
in Executive Order 13288, as amended, and I hereby prohibit such 
donations as provided by paragraph (a) of this section.
    (c) The prohibitions of this section include but are not limited to 
(i) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or 
services by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and 
interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13288, 
Executive Order 13391, or this order, and (ii) the receipt of any 
contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such 
person.
    (d) The provisions of Executive Orders 13288 and 13391 remain in 
effect, and this order does not affect any action taken pursuant to 
those orders.
    Sec. 2. (a) Any transaction by a United States person or within the 
United States that evades or avoids, has the purpose of evading or 
avoiding, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in 
this order is prohibited.
    (b)Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set 
forth in this order is prohibited.
    Sec. 3. For the purposes of this order:
    (a) the term ``person'' means an individual or entity;
    (b) the term ``entity'' means a partnership, association, trust, 
joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization;
    (c) the term ``United States person'' means any United States 
citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of 
the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States 
(including foreign branches), or any person in the United States; and
    (d) the term ``Government of Zimbabwe'' means the Government of 
Zimbabwe, its agencies, instrumentalities, and controlled entities.
    Sec. 4. For those persons whose property and interests in property 
are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional 
presence in the United States, I find that, because of the ability to 
transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such 
persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render 
these measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that,

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for these measures to be effective in addressing the national emergency 
declared in Executive Order 13288, there need be no prior notice of a 
listing or determination made pursuant to section 1 of this order.

    Sec. 5. The Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the 
Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including 
the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers 
granted to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to carry out the 
purposes of this order. The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any 
of these functions to other officers and agencies of the United States 
Government consistent with applicable law. All agencies of the United 
States Government are hereby directed to take all appropriate measures 
within their authority to carry out the provisions of this order.

    Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the 
Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to submit the recurring and 
final reports to the Congress on the national emergency declared in 
Executive Order 13288, as amended, and 5 expanded in this order, 
consistent with section 401(c) of the NEA (50 U.S.C. 1641(c)) and 
section 204(c) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1703).

    Sec. 7. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any 
right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in 
equity by any party against the United States, its departments, 
agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers or employees, or 
any other person.

                                                George W. Bush

 The White House,
 July 25, 2008.

0 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., July 28, 
2008]

0Note: This Executive order will be published in the Federal Register on 
July 29.