Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Mali, 37055-37058 [2019-16383]

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[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 146 (Tuesday, July 30, 2019)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 37055-37058]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-16383]



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Vol. 84

Tuesday,

No. 146

July 30, 2019

Part III





The President





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Executive Order 13882--Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of 
Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Mali


                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 84 , No. 146 / Tuesday, July 30, 2019 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Executive Order 13882 of July 26, 2019

                
Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain 
                Persons Contributing to the Situation in Mali

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, including the International Emergency Economic 
                Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the 
                National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) 
                (NEA), the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 (22 
                U.S.C. 287c) (UNPA), section 212(f) of the Immigration 
                and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and 
                section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and in view 
                of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 
                2374 of September 5, 2017, and UNSCR 2432 of August 30, 
                2018.

                I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of 
                America, find that the situation in Mali, including 
                repeated violations of ceasefire arrangements made 
                pursuant to the 2015 Agreement on Peace and 
                Reconciliation in Mali; the expansion of terrorist 
                activities into southern and central Mali; the 
                intensification of drug trafficking and trafficking in 
                persons, human rights abuses, and hostage-taking; and 
                the intensification of attacks against civilians, the 
                Malian defense and security forces, the United Nations 
                Multidimensional Integrated Stabilizations Mission in 
                Mali (MINUSMA), and international security presences, 
                constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the 
                national security and foreign policy of the United 
                States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to 
                deal with that threat. I hereby order:

                Section 1. (a) All property 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 of the following persons are blocked and may not 
                be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise 
                dealt in: any person determined by the Secretary of the 
                Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State:

(i) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or 
indirectly engaged in, any of the following in or in relation to Mali:

  (A) actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, or stability 
of Mali;

  (B) actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or 
institutions in Mali;

  (C) a hostile act in violation of, or an act that obstructs, including by 
prolonged delay, or threatens the implementation of, the 2015 Agreement on 
Peace and Reconciliation in Mali;

  (D) planning, directing, sponsoring, or conducting attacks against local, 
regional, or state institutions, the Malian defense and security forces, 
any international security presences, MINUSMA peacekeepers, other United 
Nations or associated personnel, or any other peacekeeping operations;

  (E) obstructing the delivery or distribution of, or access to, 
humanitarian assistance;

  (F) planning, directing, or committing an act that violates international 
humanitarian law or that constitutes a serious human rights abuse or 
violation, including an act involving the targeting of civilians through

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the commission of an act of violence, abduction or enforced disappearance, 
forced displacement, or an attack on a school, hospital, religious site, or 
location where civilians are seeking refuge;

  (G) the use or recruitment of children by armed groups or armed forces in 
the context of the armed conflict in Mali;

  (H) the illicit production or trafficking of narcotics or their 
precursors originating or transiting through Mali;

  (I) trafficking in persons, smuggling migrants, or trafficking or 
smuggling arms or illicitly acquired cultural property; or

  (J) any transaction or series of transactions involving bribery or other 
corruption, such as the misappropriation of Malian public assets or 
expropriation of private assets for personal gain or political purposes;

(ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, 
material, or technological support for, or goods or services in support of, 
any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to 
this order; or

(iii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act 
for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and 
interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order.

                    (b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this 
                section apply except to the extent provided by 
                statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or 
                licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and 
                notwithstanding any contract entered into or any 
                license or permit granted prior to the date of this 
                order.

                Sec. 2. The unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant 
                entry into the United States of aliens determined to 
                meet one or more of the criteria in section 1 of this 
                order would be detrimental to the interests of the 
                United States, and the entry of such persons into the 
                United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, is 
                hereby suspended, except where the Secretary of State 
                determines that the person's entry is in the national 
                interest of the United States, including when the 
                Secretary so determines based on a recommendation of 
                the Attorney General, that the person's entry would 
                further important United States law enforcement 
                objectives. Such persons shall be treated as persons 
                covered by section 1 of Proclamation 8693 of July 24, 
                2011 (Suspension of Entry of Aliens Subject to United 
                Nations Security Council Travel Bans and International 
                Emergency Economic Powers Act Sanctions).

                Sec. 3. I hereby determine that the making of donations 
                of the types of articles specified in section 203(b)(2) 
                of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, to, or for the 
                benefit of any person whose property and interests in 
                property are blocked pursuant to section 1 of 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 section 1 
                of this order.

                Sec. 4. The prohibitions in section 1 of this order 
                include but are not limited to:

                    (a) the making of any contribution or provision of 
                funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of 
                any person whose property and interests in property are 
                blocked pursuant to this order; and
                    (b) the receipt of any contribution or provision of 
                funds, goods, or services from any such person.

                Sec. 5. (a) Any transaction that evades or avoids, has 
                the purpose of evading or avoiding, causes a violation 
                of, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set 
                forth in this order is prohibited.

                    (b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the 
                prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.

                Sec. 6. For the purposes of this order:

                    (a) the term ``person'' means an individual or 
                entity;

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                    (b) the term ``entity'' means a partnership, 
                association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, 
                subgroup, or other organization; and
                    (c) the term ``United States person'' means any 
                United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity 
                organized under the laws of the United States or any 
                jurisdiction within the United States (including 
                foreign branches), or any person in the United States.

                Sec. 7. For those persons whose property and interests 
                in property are blocked pursuant to this order who 
                might have a constitutional presence in the United 
                States, I find that because of the ability to transfer 
                funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to 
                such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this 
                order would render those measures ineffectual. I 
                therefore determine that for these measures to be 
                effective in addressing the national emergency declared 
                in this order, there need be no prior notice of a 
                listing or determination made pursuant to section 1 of 
                this order.

                Sec. 8. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
                with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to 
                take such actions, including promulgating rules and 
                regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the 
                President by IEEPA and the UNPA as may be necessary to 
                implement this order. The Secretary of the Treasury 
                may, consistent with applicable law, redelegate any of 
                these functions within the Department of the Treasury. 
                All agencies of the United States Government shall take 
                all appropriate measures within their authority to 
                carry out the provisions of this order.

                Sec. 9. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
                with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to 
                submit the recurring and final reports to the Congress 
                on the national emergency declared in this order, 
                consistent with section 40l(c) of the NEA (50 U.S.C. 
                164l(c)) and section 204(c) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 
                1703(c)).

                Sec. 10. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed 
                to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.

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                    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
                entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    July 26, 2019.

[FR Doc. 2019-16383
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