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Week Ending Friday, May 23, 2008
Contents:
Notice—Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Burma,
May 16, 2008
On May 20, 1997, the President issued Executive Order 13047, certifying to the Congress under section 570(b) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1997 (Public Law 104-208), that the Government of Burma has engaged in large-scale repression of the democratic opposition in Burma after September 30, 1996, thereby invoking the prohibition on new investment in Burma by United States persons contained in that section. The President also declared a national emergency to deal with the threat posed to the national security and foreign policy of the United States by the actions and policies of the Government of Burma, invoking the authority, inter alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.
On July 28, 2003, I issued Executive Order 13310 taking additional steps with respect to that national emergency by putting in place an import ban required by the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003 and prohibiting exports of financial services to Burma and the dealing in property in which certain designated Burmese persons have an interest. On October 18, 2007, I issued Executive Order 13448 to expand prohibitions to include the Burmese regime’s financial supporters and their companies, as well as individuals determined to be responsible for or to have participated in human rights abuses or to have engaged in activities facilitating public corruption. On April 30, 2008, I issued Executive Order 13464 taking additional steps with respect to the Government of Burma’s continued repression of the democratic opposition in Burma.
Because the actions and policies of the Government of Burma continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, the national emergency declared on May 20, 1997, and expanded on October 18, 2007, and April 30, 2008, and the measures adopted to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond May 20, 2008. Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency with respect to Burma. This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress.
George W. Bush
The White House,
May 16, 2008.
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:03 a.m., May 16, 2008]
Note: This notice was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on May 17, and it was published in the Federal Register on May 19.
Contents:
Chicago: George W. Bush, "Notice— Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Burma, May 16, 2008," Week Ending Friday, May 23, 2008 in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, May 23, 2008 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008), 44:715 Original Sources, accessed November 24, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=X1XGAIGM3DEPXUS.
MLA: Bush, George W. "Notice— Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Burma, May 16, 2008." Week Ending Friday, May 23, 2008, in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, May 23, 2008 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008), 44:715, Original Sources. 24 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=X1XGAIGM3DEPXUS.
Harvard: Bush, GW, 'Notice— Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Burma, May 16, 2008' in Week Ending Friday, May 23, 2008. cited in , United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, May 23, 2008 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008), 44:715. Original Sources, retrieved 24 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=X1XGAIGM3DEPXUS.
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