Presidential Documents

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Federal Register 

Vol. 73, No. 146 

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 

Title 3— 

The President 

Executive Order 13469 of July 25, 2008 

Blocking Property of Additional Persons Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Zimbabwe 

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, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that 

the continued actions and policies of the Government of Zimbabwe and 

other persons to undermine Zimbabwe’s democratic processes or institutions, 

manifested most recently in the fundamentally undemocratic election held 

on June 27, 2008, to commit acts of violence and other human rights abuses 

against political opponents, and to engage in public corruption, including 

by misusing public authority, constitute an unusual and extraor- dinary 

threat to the foreign policy of the United States, and to deal with that 

threat, hereby expand the scope of the national emergency declared in 

Executive Order 13288 of March 6, 2003, and relied upon for additional 

steps taken in Executive Order 13391 of November 22, 2005, and hereby 

order: 

Section 1. (a) Except to the extent provided by statutes, or provided 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, 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 United States persons, including their overseas branches, 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persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, 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, after consultation 

with the Secretary of State: 

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

(ii) to be owned or controlled by, directly or indirectly, the Government 

of Zimbabwe or an official or officials of the Government of Zimbabwe; 

(iii) to have engaged in actions or policies to undermine Zimbabwe’s 

democratic processes or institutions; 

(iv) to be responsible for, or to have participated in, human rights abuses 

related to political repression in Zimbabwe; 

(v) to be engaged in, or to have engaged in, activities facilitating public 

corruption by senior officials of the Government of Zimbabwe; 

(vi) to be a spouse or dependent child of any person whose property 

and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13288, 

Executive Order 13391, or this order; 

(vii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, 

logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services in support of, 

the Government of Zimbabwe, any senior official thereof, or any person 

whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive 

Order 13288, Executive Order 13391, or this order; or (viii) to be owned 

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of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in 

property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13288, Executive Order 

13391, or this order. 

(b) 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 paragraph (a) of this section would seriously impair 

my ability to deal with the national emergency declared in Executive Order 

13288, as amended, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by 

paragraph (a) of this section. 

(c) The prohibitions of this section include but are not limited to (i) 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 Executive Order 13288, Executive Order 13391, 

or this order, and (ii) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, 

goods, or services from any such person. 

(d) The provisions of Executive Orders 13288 and 13391 remain in effect, 

and this order does not affect any action taken pursuant to those orders. 

Sec. 2. (a) Any transaction by a United States person or within the United 

States that evades or avoids, has the purpose of evading or avoiding, 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. 3. 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 Zimbabwe’’ means the Government of 

Zimbabwe, its agencies, instrumentalities, and controlled entities. 

Sec. 4. 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 these measures ineffectual. 

I therefore determine that, for these measures to be effective in addressing 

the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13288, there need be 

no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 

1 of this order. 

Sec. 5. The Secretary of the Treasury, after 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. 

Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary 

of State, is hereby authorized to submit the recurring and final reports 

to the Congress on the national emergency declared in Executive Order 

13288, as amended, and 5 expanded in this order, consistent with section 

401(c) of the NEA (50 U.S.C. 1641(c)) and section 204(c) of IEEPA (50 

U.S.C. 1703). 


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Sec. 7. 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, instrumentalities, 

or entities, its officers or employees, or any other person. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

July 25, 2008. 

[FR Doc. 08–1480 

Filed 7–25–08; 8:45 am] 

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