[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 162 (Monday, August 22, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52384-52385]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-21376]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Designation of Additional Entities Pursuant to Executive Order 
13405

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control 
(``OFAC'') is publishing the names of four newly-designated entities 
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to 
Executive Order 13405 of June 16, 2006, ``Blocking Property of Certain 
Persons Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Belarus.''

DATES: The designation by the Director of OFAC of the four entities 
identified in this notice, pursuant to Executive

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Order 13405, is effective August 11, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Compliance 
Outreach & Implementation, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department 
of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220, Tel.: 202/622-2490.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Electronic and Facsimile Availability

    This document and additional information concerning OFAC are 
available from OFAC's Web site (http://www.treasury.gov/ofac) or via 
facsimile through a 24-hour fax-on-demand service, Tel.: 202/622-0077.

Background

    On June 16, 2006, the President issued Executive Order 13405 (the 
``Order'') pursuant to, inter alia, the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-06). In the Order, the President 
declared a national emergency to address political repression, 
electoral fraud, and public corruption in Belarus. The Order imposes 
economic sanctions on persons responsible for actions or policies that 
undermine democratic processes or institutions in Belarus. The 
President identified ten individuals as subject to the economic 
sanctions in the Annex to the Order.
    Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all 
property, and interests in property, that are in, or hereafter come 
within, the United States or the possession or control of United States 
persons for persons listed in the Annex and those persons determined by 
the Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of 
State, to satisfy any of the criteria set forth in subparagraphs 
(a)(ii)(A) through (a)(ii)(E) of Section 1.
    On August 11, 2011, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State, designated, pursuant to one or more of the criteria 
set forth in Section 1, subparagraphs (a)(ii)(A) through (a)(ii)(E) of 
the Order, the following four entities, whose names have been added to 
the list of Specially Designated Nationals and whose property and 
interests in property are blocked, pursuant to Executive Order 13405:

1. BELSHINA OAO (a.k.a. BELSHINA OJSC; a.k.a. BELSHINA TYRE WORKS OAO; 
a.k.a. JSC BELSHINA; f.k.a. RUP BELORUSSKY SHINNY KOMBINAT BELSHINA), 
Minsk Highway Bobruisk, 213824, Mogilev Region, Belarus; Minskoye 
schosse Bobruisk 213824, Mogilevskaya oblast, Belarus; Minsk Highway, 
Bobruisk, Mogilev region, Belarus; [BELARUS]
2. GRODNO AZOT OAO (a.k.a. GRODNO AZOT; f.k.a. GPO AZOT OJSC; f.k.a. 
GRODNESKOYE PROZVODSTVENNOYE OBYEDINENYE AZOT; f.k.a. RUP GRODNENSKOYE 
PO AZOT; f.k.a. RUP GPO AZOT), 100 Kosmonavtov Avenue, 230013, Grodno, 
Belarus; 100 Kosmonavtov pr., 230013, Grodno, Belarus; Prospekt 
Kosmanovtov 100, 230013, Grodno, Belarus; [BELARUS]
3. GRODNO KHIMVOLOKNO OAO (a.k.a. JSC GRODNO KHIMVOLOKNO; a.k.a. GRODNO 
KHIMVOLOKNO JSC; a.k.a. GRODNO CHEMICAL FIBRE OJSC), 4 Slavinskogo 
Street, 230026, Grodno, Belarus; ulitsa Slavinskogo 4, 230026, Grodno, 
Belarus; str. Slavinskogo 4, 230026, Grodno, Belarus; [BELARUS]
4. NAFTAN OAO (a.k.a. NAFTAN OJSC; a.k.a. NAFTAN; f.k.a. NAFTAN 
PROIZVODSTVENNOYE OBYEDINENYE; f.k.a. NAFTAN PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION), 
Industrial Area, Novopolotsk-1, 211440, Vitebsk Region, Belarus; 
Novopolotsk, 21140, Vitebsk region, Belarus; Novopolotsk, 211440, 
Vitebskaya Oblast, Belarus; [BELARUS]

    Dated: August 11, 2011.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2011-21376 Filed 8-19-11; 8:45 am]
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