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Week Ending July 22, 2005
Continuation of the National Emergency Blocking Property of Certain Persons and Prohibiting the Importation of Certain Goods from Liberia.
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It is Charles Taylor, deposed president of Liberia, and his associates and assets that are the target of this determination.
The President holds that Mr. Taylor and others depleted Liberian resources and removed them from Liberia via secreting funds and property. The result of this alleged pilfering is an undermining of Liberian transition to democracy and the “orderly development of its political, administrative and economic institutions and resources.”
The President notes further that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2003 has not been completely implemented nor has the cease-fire. Further, illicit trade in logs and timber products is somehow linked to increased trafficking in illegal arms further perpetuating the conflicts there and throughout West Africa.
All of this continues to pose a threat to US national security and foreign policy and so the President is extending for another year Liberia’s status as a threat.
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