U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON : 

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99–011 2011

112th Congress, 1st Session – – – – – – – – – – – – – House Document 112–26 

CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY 

WITH RESPECT TO SYRIA 

COMMUNICATION 

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRANSMITTING

NOTIFICATION THAT THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT 

TO SYRIA, ORIGINALLY BY EXECUTIVE ORDER 13338, IS TO CONTINUE IN EFFECT BEYOND MAY 11, 2011, PURSUANT TO 50 

U.S.C. 1622(d) 

MAY 23, 2011.—Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered 

to be printed 


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THE WHITE HOUSE, 

Washington, May 18, 2011. 

Hon. JOHN BOEHNER, 

Speaker of the House of Representatives, 

Washington, DC. 

DEAR MR. SPEAKER: 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’’) that takes 

additional steps with respect to the Government of Syria’s continuous escalation of violence against the people of Syria—including 

through attacks on protestors, arrests and harassment of protestors 

and political activists, and repression of democratic change, overseen and executed by numerous elements of the Syrian government—and with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13338 of May 11, 2004, relied upon for additional 

steps taken in Executive Order 13399 of April 25, 2006, and in Executive Order 13460 of February 13, 2008, and expanded in scope 

in Executive Order 13572 of April 29, 2011. 

In Executive Order 13338, the President found that the actions 

of the Government of Syria constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy 

of the United States and declared a national emergency to deal 

with that threat. To address that threat and to implement the 

Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 

2003 (Public Law 108–175), the President in Executive Order 

13338 blocked the property of certain persons and imposed additional prohibitions on certain transactions with respect to Syria. In 

Executive Order 13572, I expanded the scope of that national emergency and imposed additional sanctions. 

The order blocks the property and interests in property of persons listed in the Annex to the order. The order also provides criteria for designations, and the resulting blocking of the property 

and interests in property, of persons determined by the Secretary 

of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State: • to be a senior official of the Government of Syria; • to be an agency or instrumentality of the Government of 

Syria, or owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the Government of Syria or by an official or officials of the Government of Syria; • to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services 

in support of, 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, directly or indirectly, any person 

whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant 

to the order. 


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I have delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury the authority, 

in consultation with the Secretary of State, 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. I have also delegated to the 

Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of 

State, the authority to determine that circumstances no longer 

warrant the blocking of the property and interests in property of 

a person listed in the Annex to the order, and to take necessary 

action to give effect to that determination. 

The order was effective at 1:00 p.m. eastern daylight time on 

May 18, 2011. All executive 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. 

Sincerely, 

BARACK OBAMA. 


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EXECUTIVE ORDER

BLOCKING PROPERTY OF SENIOR OFFICIALS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF

SYRIA

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.), 

and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, 

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

in order to take additional steps with respect to the Government 

of Syria’s continuing escalation of violence against the people of 

Syria—including through attacks on protestors, arrests and harassment of protestors and political activists, and repression of democratic change, overseen and executed by numerous elements of the 

Syrian government—and with respect to the national emergency 

declared in Executive Order 13338 of May 11, 2004, relied upon for 

additional steps taken in Executive Order 13399 of April 25, 2006, 

and in Executive Order 13460 of February 13, 2008, and expanded 

in scope in Executive Order 13572 of April 29, 2011, hereby order: 

Section 1. 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, including any overseas branch, of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: 

(a) the persons listed in the Annex to this order; and 

(b) any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in 

consultation with the Secretary of State: 

(i) to be a senior official of the Government of Syria; 

(ii) to be an agency or instrumentality of the Government of 

Syria, or owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the Government of Syria or by an official or officials of the Government of Syria; 

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

in support of, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or 

(iv) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order. 

Sec. 2. 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 


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order would seriously impair my ability to deal with the national 

emergency declared in Executive Order 13338 and expanded in 

scope in Executive Order 13572, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by section 1 of this order. 

Sec. 3. 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. 4. The prohibitions in section 1 of this order 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 effective date of this order. 

Sec. 5. (a) Any transaction by a United States person or within 

the United States 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; 

(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; and 

(d) the term ‘‘Government of Syria’’ means the Government of the 

Syrian Arab Republic, its agencies, instrumentalities, and controlled entities. 

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 13572, 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 as 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. 


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Sec. 9. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 

Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to determine that circumstances no longer warrant the blocking of the property and interests in property of a person listed in the Annex to this order, 

and to take necessary action to give effect to that determination. 

Sec. 10. 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. 

Sec. 11. This order is effective at 1:00 p.m. eastern daylight time 

on May 18, 2011. 

BARACK OBAMA. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, May 18, 2011. 

ANNEX

Individuals 

1. Bashar AL-ASSAD [President of the Syrian Arab Republic, 

born September 11, 1965] 

2. Farouk AL-SHARA [Vice President, born 1938] 

3. Adel SAFAR [Prime Minister, born 1953] 

4. Mohammad Ibrahim AL-SHAAR [Minister of the Interior, born 

1950] 

5. Ali Habib MAHMOUD [Minister of Defense, born 1939] 

6. Abdul Fatah QUDSIYA [Head of Syrian Military Intelligence, 

born circa 1950] 

7. Mohammed Dib ZAITOUN [Director of Political Security Directorate, born circa 1952] 

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