[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 44, Number 29 (Monday, July 28, 2008)]
[Pages 1027-1028]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Message to the Congress on Blocking Property of Additional Persons 
Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Zimbabwe

July 25, 2008

To the Congress of the United States:

    Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as 
amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby report that I have 
issued an Executive Order (the ``order'') that expands the scope of the 
national emergency declared in Executive Order 13288 of March 6, 2003, 
which was relied upon for additional steps taken in Executive Order 
13391 of November 22, 2005, and takes additional steps with respect to 
that national emergency.
    In Executive Order 13288, I found that the actions and policies of 
certain members of the Government of Zimbabwe and other persons to 
undermine Zimbabwe's democratic processes or institutions constituted an 
unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United 
States and declared a national emergency to deal with that threat. 
Executive Order 13288 blocks the property and interests in property of 
the persons listed in its Annex and permits the designation of any 
person or entity owned or controlled by, or acting or purporting to act 
directly or indirectly for or on behalf of, any person listed in that 
Annex.
    Executive Order 13391 took additional steps to address the national 
emergency declared in Executive Order 13288 and amended the provisions 
of that earlier order. Executive Order 13391 blocks the property of the 
persons and entities listed in its Annex and permits the designation of 
any person or entity determined: to have engaged in actions or policies 
to undermine Zimbabwe's democratic processes or institutions; to have 
materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or 
technological support for, or goods or services in support of, such 
actions or policies or any person whose property and interests in 
property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13288, as amended; to 
be or have been an immediate family member of any person whose property 
and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13288, 
as amended;

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or to be owned or controlled by, or acting or purporting 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, as 
amended.
    I have now determined 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 the misuse of 
public authority, warrant an expansion of the existing national 
emergency and the existing sanctions with respect to Zimbabwe. The order 
supplements the designation criteria set forth in Executive Order 13288, 
as amended by Executive Order 13391, and provides additional criteria 
for designation of any person determined by the Secretary of the 
Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of State: to be a senior 
official of the Government of Zimbabwe; to be owned or controlled by, 
directly or indirectly, the Government of Zimbabwe or an official or 
officials of the Government of Zimbabwe; to be responsible for, or to 
have participated in, human rights abuses related to political 
repression in Zimbabwe; to be engaged in, or to have engaged in, 
activities facilitating public corruption by senior officials of the 
Government of Zimbabwe; or 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 
the order.
    The order also restates existing designation authority to block the 
property and interests in property of persons determined to have engaged 
in actions or policies to undermine Zimbabwe's democratic processes or 
institutions. Finally, the order restates existing derivative 
designation authority and adds derivative designation authority to block 
the property and interests in property of persons determined by the 
Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of 
State, to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to 
act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, or to be a spouse or 
dependant child of, any person whose property and interests in property 
are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13288, Executive Order 13391, or 
the order.
    In the order, I delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury, after 
consultation with the Secretary of State, the authority to take such 
actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations, as may be 
necessary to carry out the purposes of the order.
    I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order I have issued.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 July 25, 2008.