Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Lebanon

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 146 (Friday, July 29, 2016)

Federal Register Volume 81, Number 146 (Friday, July 29, 2016)

Presidential Documents

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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov

FR Doc No: 2016-18215

Page 50279

Vol. 81

Friday,

No. 146

July 29, 2016

Part VI

The President

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Notice of July 27, 2016--Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Lebanon

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Notice of July 27, 2016

Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Lebanon

On August 1, 2007, by Executive Order 13441, the President declared a national emergency with respect to Lebanon pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by the actions of certain persons to undermine Lebanon's legitimate and democratically elected government or democratic institutions; to contribute to the deliberate breakdown in the rule of law in Lebanon, including through politically motivated violence and intimidation; to reassert Syrian control or contribute to Syrian interference in Lebanon; or to infringe upon or undermine Lebanese sovereignty. Such actions contribute to political and economic instability in that country and the region.

Certain ongoing activities, such as continuing arms transfers to Hizballah that include increasingly sophisticated weapons systems, serve to undermine Lebanese sovereignty, contribute to political and economic instability in Lebanon, and continue to constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. For this reason, the national emergency declared on August 1, 2007, and the measures adopted on that date to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond August 1, 2016. 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 Lebanon declared in Executive Order 13441.

This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress.

(Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

July 27, 2016.

FR Doc. 2016-18215

Filed 7-28-16; 11:15 am

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