U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

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39–011 2005

109th Congress, 1st Session – – – – – – – – – – – – – House Document 109–12 

CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY 

WITH RESPECT TO ZIMBABWE 

MESSAGE 

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRANSMITTING

NOTIFICATION THAT THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY BLOCKING THE 

PROPERTY OF PERSONS UNDERMINING DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES OR INSTITUTIONS IN ZIMBABWE ON MARCH 6, 2003, BY 

EXECUTIVE ORDER 13288, IS TO CONTINUE IN EFFECT BEYOND 

MARCH 6, 2005, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1622(d) 

MARCH 3, 2005.—Message and accompanying papers referred to the 

Committee on International Relations and ordered to be printed 


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To the Congress of the United States: 

Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 

1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the 

President publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the 

Congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. In accordance with this provision, 

I have sent to the Federal Register for publication the enclosed notice stating that the national emergency blocking the property of 

persons undermining democratic processes or institutions in 

Zimbabwe is to continue in effect beyond March 6, 2005. The most 

recent notice continuing this emergency was published in the Federal Register on March 5, 2004 (69 FR 10313). 

The crisis constituted by the actions and policies of certain members of the Government of Zimbabwe and other persons to undermine Zimbabwe’s democratic processes or institutions has not been 

resolved. These actions and policies pose a continuing unusual and 

extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United States. For 

these reasons, I have determined that it is necessary to continue 

the national emergency blocking the property of persons undermining democratic processes or institutions in Zimbabwe and to 

maintain in force the sanctions to respond to this threat. 

GEORGE W. BUSH. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, March 2, 2005. 

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NOTICE

CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY BLOCKING PROPERTY

OF PERSONS UNDERMINING DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES OR INSTITUTIONS IN ZIMBABWE

On March 6, 2003, by Executive Order 13288, I declared a national emergency blocking the property of persons undermining 

democratic processes or institutions in Zimbabwe, 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 foreign policy of the United States constituted by the 

actions and policies of certain members of the Government of 

Zimbabwe and other persons to undermine Zimbabwe’s democratic 

processes or institutions, thus contributing to the deliberate breakdown in the rule of law in Zimbabwe, to politically motivated violence and intimidation in that country, and to political and economic instability in the southern African region. 

Because the actions and policies of these persons continue to pose 

an unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the 

United States, the national emergency declared on March 6, 2003, 

and the measures adopted on that date to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond March 6, 2005. 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 

blocking the property of persons undermining democratic processes 

or institutions in Zimbabwe. 

This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress. 

GEORGE W. BUSH. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, March 2, 2005. 

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