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Week Ending February 9, 2006

Presidential Notice of February 5, 2007 continuation of the national emergency blocking property of persons contributing to the conflict in Cote d’Ivoire.

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The President extends for another year Executive Order 13396 of 2006. The Order notes that despite a 2004 and other UN Security Council Resolutions, a large number of civilians were massacred, many suffered human rights abuses, and significant political violence and unrest have taken place there. International peacekeeping forces have been attacked. The Order concludes that this constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the US.

Consequently the President declares a national emergency from which to deal with the problem. As such the President orders that all property and interests in property within the US or that comes within possession or control of a US person (or entity) are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn or otherwise dealt by anyone listed (list not provided by White House) or those determined to constitute a threat to the peace and national reconciliation process in Cote d’Ivoire.

The asset freezing would apply to those blocking the implementation of the Linas-Marcoussis Agreement of 2004, the Accra III Agreement of 2004 and the Pretoria Agreement of 2005, those responsible for serious violations of international law, those who have directly or indirectly supplied, sold or transferred to Cote d’Ivoire arms or related materiel, assistance and advice or training related to military activities, who have publicly incited violence and hatred contributing to the conflict, those who have materially assisted, sponsored or provided financial, material or technological support for those activities.

The Order further prohibits contributions or provision of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of any person designated by this order as well as any US citizen thought to have conspired to violate these prohibitions.

Material not prohibited include:

non-lethal military equipment intended solely for humanitarian or protective use, and related technical assistance and training; supplies of protective clothing, including flak jackets and military helmets, temporarily exported to Cote d'Ivoire by United Nations personnel, representatives of the media, and humanitarian and development workers and associated personnel, for their personal use only. Also not prohibited are supplies temporarily exported to Cote d'Ivoire to the forces of a country that is taking action solely and directly to facilitate the evacuation of its nationals and those for whom it has consular responsibility in Cote d'Ivoire; and supplies of arms and related materiel and technical training and assistance intended solely for support of or use in the process of restructuring defense and security forces pursuant the Linas-Marcoussis Agreement. ## All Rights Reserved. © 2007 TheWeekInCongress.com.(TM) No reproduction, language translation or distribution without written permission from TheWeekInCongress.com.(TM)