U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

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69–011 2008

110th Congress, 2d Session – – – – – – – – – – – – House Document 110–140 

CONTINUATION OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH 

RESPECT TO LEBANON 

MESSAGE 

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRANSMITTING

NOTIFICATION THAT THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT 

TO THE ACTIONS OF CERTAIN PERSONS TO UNDERMINE THE 

SOVEREIGNTY OF LEBANON OR ITS DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES 

AND INSTITUTIONS IS TO CONTINUE IN EFFECT BEYOND AUGUST 1, 2008, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1622(d) 

JULY 31, 2008.—Message and accompanying papers referred to the 

Committee on Foreign Affairs 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 the enclosed notice to the Federal Register for publication stating that the national emergency and related measures 

blocking the property of persons undermining the sovereignty of 

Lebanon or its democratic processes and institutions and certain 

other persons are to continue in effect beyond August 1, 2008. 

The actions of certain persons to undermine Lebanon’s legitimate 

and democratically elected government or democratic institutions, 

to contribute to the deliberate breakdown in the rule of law in Lebanon, including through politically motivated violence and intimidation, to reassert Syrian control or contribute to Syrian interference in Lebanon, or to infringe upon or undermine Lebanese 

sovereignty contribute to political and economic instability in that 

country and the region and constitute a continuing unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the 

United States. For these reasons, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency and related measures 

blocking the property of persons undermining the sovereignty of 

Lebanon or its democratic processes and institutions and certain 

other persons. 

GEORGE W. BUSH. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, July 30, 2008. 


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NOTICE

CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO

THE ACTIONS OF CERTAIN PERSONS TO UNDERMINE THE SOVEREIGNTY OF LEBANON OR ITS DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES AND INSTITUTIONS

On August 1, 2007, by Executive Order 13441, I declared a national emergency and ordered related measures blocking the property of certain persons undermining the sovereignty of Lebanon or 

its democratic processes or institutions and certain other persons, 

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 actions of certain persons to 

undermine Lebanon’s legitimate and democratically elected government or democratic institutions, to contribute to the deliberate 

breakdown in the rule of law in Lebanon, including through politically motivated violence and intimidation, to reassert Syrian control or contribute to Syrian interference in Lebanon, or to infringe 

upon or undermine Lebanese sovereignty which contributes to political and economic instability in that country and the region. 

Because these actions continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the 

United States, the national emergency declared on August 1, 2007, 

and the measures adopted on that date to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond August 1, 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 13441. 

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

GEORGE W. BUSH. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, July 30, 2008. 

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