U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE

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59–011 2016

114th Congress, 2d Session – – – – – – – – – – – – House Document 114–124 

EXPANDING THE SCOPE OF THE NATIONAL 

EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO LIBYA 

MESSAGE 

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRANSMITTING

EXPANDING THE SCOPE OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARED IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 13566 OF FEBRUARY 25, 2011, 

WITH RESPECT TO THE UNUSUAL AND EXTRAORDINARY 

THREAT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN POLICY OF 

THE UNITED STATES POSED BY THE SITUATION IN LIBYA 

APRIL 19, 2016.—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: 

Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act 

(50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby report that I have issued 

an Executive Order (the ‘‘order’’) expanding the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13566 of February 

25, 2011, with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to 

the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed 

by the situation in Libya. 

In the order, I find that the ongoing violence in Libya, including 

attacks by armed groups against Libyan state facilities, foreign 

missions in Libya, and critical infrastructure, as well as human 

rights abuses, violations of the arms embargo imposed by United 

Nations Security Council Resolution 1970 (2011), and misappropriation of Libya’s natural resources threaten the peace, security, 

stability, sovereignty, democratic transition, and territorial integrity of Libya, and thereby constitute an unusual and extraordinary 

threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United 

States. The order blocks the property and interests in property of 

persons determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State: 

• to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have engaged in, directly or indirectly, any of the following: 

Æ actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, or stability of Libya, including through the supply of arms or related 

materiel; 

Æ actions or policies that obstruct, undermine, delay, or impede, or pose a significant risk of obstructing, undermining, delaying, or impeding, the adoption of or political transition to a 

Government of National Accord or a successor government; 

Æ actions that may lead to or result in the misappropriation 

of state assets of Libya; or 

Æ threatening or coercing Libyan state financial institutions 

or the Libyan National Oil Company; 

• to be planning, directing, or committing or to have planned, directed, or committed, attacks against any Libyan state facility or 

installation (including oil facilities), against any air, land, or sea 

port in Libya, or against any foreign mission in Libya; 

• to be involved in, or to have been involved in, the targeting of 

civilians through the commission of acts of violence, abduction, 

forced displacement, or attacks on schools, hospitals, religious sites, 

or locations where civilians are seeking refuge, or through conduct 

that would constitute a serious abuse or violation of human rights 

or a violation of international humanitarian law; 

• to be involved in, or to have been involved in, the illicit exploitation of crude oil or any other natural resources in Libya, including the illicit production, refining, brokering, sale, purchase, or export of Libyan oil; 


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• to be a leader of an entity that has, or whose members have, 

engaged in any activity described above; • to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, 

material, logistical, or technological support for, or goods or services in support of any of the activities described above or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant 

to the order; or • to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to 

act for or on behalf of, any person whose property and interests in 

property are blocked pursuant to the order. 

In addition, the order suspends entry into the United States of 

any alien determined to meet one or more of the above criteria. 

I have delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 

with the Secretary of State, the authority 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 the order. All agencies of the United 

States Government are directed to take all appropriate measures 

within their authority to carry out the provisions of the order. 

I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order I have issued. 

BARACK OBAMA. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, April 19, 2016. 


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EXECUTIVE ORDER

BLOCKING PROPERTY AND SUSPENDING ENTRY INTO THE UNITED

STATES OF PERSONS CONTRIBUTING TO THE SITUATION IN LIBYA

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.), 

section 5 of the United Nations Participation Act of 1945, as 

amended (22 U.S.C. 287c) (UNPA), section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 

of title 3, United States Code, 

I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, 

hereby expand the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13566 of February 25, 2011, finding that the ongoing 

violence in Libya, including attacks by armed groups against Libyan state facilities, foreign missions in Libya, and critical infrastructure, as well as human rights abuses, violations of the arms embargo imposed by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1970 

(2011), and misappropriation of Libya’s natural resources threaten 

the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, democratic transition, 

and territorial integrity of Libya, and thereby constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign 

policy of the United States. To address this threat, and in view of 

United Nations Security Council Resolutions 2174 of August 27, 

2014, and 2213 of March 27, 2015, I hereby order: 

Section 1. (a) 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 

any United States person 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, 

in consultation with the Secretary of State: 

(i) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have engaged 

in, directly or indirectly, any of the following: 

(A) actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, 

or stability of Libya, including through the supply of arms 

or related materiel; 

(B) actions or policies that obstruct, undermine, delay, or 

impede, or pose a significant risk of obstructing, undermining, delaying, or impeding, the adoption of or political 

transition to a Government of National Accord or a successor government; 

(C) actions that may lead to or result in the misappropriation of state assets of Libya; or 


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(D) threatening or coercing Libyan state financial institutions or the Libyan National Oil Company; 

(ii) to be planning, directing, or committing, or to have 

planned, directed, or committed, attacks against any Libyan 

state facility or installation (including oil facilities), against 

any air, land, or sea port in Libya, or against any foreign mission in Libya; 

(iii) to be involved in, or to have been involved in, the targeting of civilians through the commission of acts of violence, 

abduction, forced displacement, or attacks on schools, hospitals, religious sites, or locations where civilians are seeking 

refuge, or through conduct that would constitute a serious 

abuse or violation of human rights or a violation of international humanitarian law; 

(iv) to be involved in, or to have been involved in, the illicit 

exploitation of crude oil or any other natural resources in 

Libya, including the illicit production, refining, brokering, sale, 

purchase, or export of Libyan oil; 

(v) to be a leader of an entity that has, or whose members 

have, engaged in any activity described in subsections (a)(i), 

(a)(ii), (a)(iii), or (a)(iv) of this section; 

(vi) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technological support for, or goods 

or services in support of (A) any of the activities described in 

subsections (a)(i), (a)(ii), (a)(iii), or (a)(iv) of this section or (B) 

any person whose property and interests in property are 

blocked pursuant to this order; or 

(vii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, any person whose property 

and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order. 

(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section apply except 

to the extent provided by statutes, or 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. The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section are in addition to export control authorities implemented by the Department of Commerce. 

Sec. 2. I hereby find that the unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of aliens determined to 

meet one or more of the criteria in section 1(a) of this order would 

be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and I hereby 

suspend entry into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of such persons. Such persons shall be treated as persons covered by section 1 of Proclamation 8693 of July 24, 2011 

(Suspension of Entry of Aliens Subject to United Nations Security 

Council Travel Bans and International Emergency Economic Powers Act Sanctions). Further, United Nations Security Council Resolution 2174 shall be treated as a Resolution listed in Annex A of 

Proclamation 8693. 

Sec. 3. 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 section 1 of this 

order would seriously impair my ability to deal with the national 


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emergency declared in Executive Order 13566 and expanded in this 

order, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by section 

1 of this order. 

Sec. 4. The prohibitions in section 1 of this order include but are 

not limited to: 

(a) 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 this order; and 

(b) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, 

or services from any such person. 

Sec. 5. (a) Any transaction that evades or avoids, has the purpose 

of evading or avoiding, causes a violation of, 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. 6. 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; 

and 

(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. 

(d) the term ‘‘Government of National Accord or a successor government’’ means: 

(i) a Government of National Accord formed pursuant to the 

terms of the Libyan Political Agreement signed in Skhirat, Morocco, on December 17, 2015, or any amendments thereto; 

(ii) a governmental authority formed under the Libyan Constitution pursuant to the terms of the Libyan Political Agreement signed in Skhirat, Morocco, on December 17, 2015, or any 

amendments thereto; 

(iii) any subdivision, agency, or instrumentality of the foregoing, and any partnership, association, corporation, or other 

organization owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by, or 

acting for or on behalf of, the foregoing; or 

(iv) any other person determined by the Secretary of the 

Treasury to be included within paragraphs (a) through (c) of 

this section. 

Sec. 7. 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 those measures ineffectual. I therefore determine 

that for these measures to be effective in addressing the national 

emergency declared in Executive Order 13566 and expanded in this 

order, there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination 

made pursuant to section 1 of this order. 

Sec. 8. The Secretary of the Treasury, in 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 and the UNPA, as 


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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. 9. 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, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other 

person. 

BARACK OBAMA. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, April 19, 2016. 

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