Message to Congress Concerning Somalia

Consistent with subsection 204(b) of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(b) (IEEPA), and section 301 of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1631 (NEA), I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order (the “order”) blocking the property of certain persons contributing to the conflict in Somalia. In that order, I declared a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by that conflict, as described below.

The White House Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release

April 13, 2010 

Message to Congress concerning Somalia

TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:

EXECTIVE ORDER