EO 13396 Title 3--The President I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, determine that the situation in or in relation to C6te d'Ivoire, which has been ad- dressed by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 1572 of No- vember 15, 2004, and subsequent resolutions, that has resulted in the mas- sacre of large numbers of civilians, widespread human rights abuses, sig- nificant political violence and unrest, and attacks against international peacekeeping forces leading to fatalities, constitutes an unusual and ex- traordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat, and hereby order: Section 1. (a) Except to the extent that section 203(b)(\177), (3), and (4) of the IEEPA (50 U.S.C. \177702(b)(\177), (3), and (4)) may apply, or to the extent pro- vided in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pur- suant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the effective date of this order, all prop- erty 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person, including any overseas branch, of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: (i) the persons listed in the Annex to this order; and (ii) any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, after con- sultation with the Secretary of State: (A) to constitute a threat to the peace and national reconciliation process in C6te d'Ivoire, such as by blocking the implementation of the Linas- Marcoussis Agreement of January 24, 2003, the Accra III Agreement of July 30, 2004, and the Pretoria Agreement of April 6, 2005; (B) to be responsible for serious violations of international law in C6te d'Ivoire; (C) to have directly or indirectly supplied, sold, or transferred to C6te d'Ivoire arms or any related materiel or any assistance, advice, or train- ing related to military activities; (D) to have publicly incited violence and hatred contributing to the con- flict in C6te d'Ivoire; (E) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, mate- rial, or technological support for, or goods or services in support of, the activities described in paragraphs (a)(ii)(A), (a)(ii)(B), (a)(ii)(C), or (a)(ii)(D) of this section or any person listed in or designated pursuant to this order; or (F) to be owned or controlled by, or acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person listed in or designated pursuant to this order. (b) I hereby determine that, to the extent section 203(b)(2) of the IEEPA (50 U.S.C. \177702(b)(2)) may apply, the making of donations of the type of arti- cles specified in such section by, to, or for the benefit of, any person listed in or designated pursuant to this order would seriously impair my ability to deal with the national emergency declared in this order, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by paragraph (a) of this section. 210
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