Blocking Property of Senior Officials of the Government of Syria

Executive Order 13573 of May 18, 2011

Blocking Property of Senior Officials of the
Government of Syria

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.), and
section 301 of title 3, United States Code,

I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of
America, in order to take additional steps with respect
to the Government of Syria's continuing escalation of
violence against the people of Syria--including through
attacks on protestors, arrests and harassment of
protestors and political activists, and repression of
democratic change, overseen and executed by numerous
elements of the Syrian government--and with respect to
the national emergency declared in Executive Order
13338 of May 11, 2004, relied upon for additional steps
taken in Executive Order 13399 of April 25, 2006, and
in Executive Order 13460 of February 13, 2008, and
expanded in scope in Executive Order 13572 of April 29,
2011, hereby order:

Section 1. 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,
including any overseas branch, of the following persons
are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported,
withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in:

    (a) the persons listed in the Annex to this order;
and
    (b) any person determined by the Secretary of the
Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State:

(i) to be a senior official of the Government of Syria;

(ii) to be an agency or instrumentality of the Government of Syria, or
owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the Government of Syria or
by an official or officials of the Government of Syria;

(iii) 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

(iv) 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.

Sec. 2. I hereby determine that the making of donations
of the type 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 Executive Order
13338 and expanded in scope in Executive Order 13572,
and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by
section 1 of this order.

Sec. 3. 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. 4. The prohibitions in section 1 of this order
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 effective date of this order.

Sec. 5. (a) Any transaction by a United States person
or within the United States 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;
    (b) the term “entity” means a partnership,
association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group,
subgroup, or other organization;
    (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;
and
    (d) the term “Government of Syria” means the
Government of the Syrian Arab Republic, its agencies,
instrumentalities, and controlled entities.

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 Executive Order 13338 and expanded in scope in
Executive Order 13572, 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 the promulgation of rules
and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to
the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to carry out
the purposes of this order. The Secretary of the
Treasury may redelegate any of these functions to other
officers and agencies of the United States Government
consistent with applicable law. All agencies of the
United States Government are hereby directed to 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
determine that circumstances no longer warrant the
blocking of the property and interests in property of a
person listed in the Annex to this order, and to take
necessary action to give effect to that determination.

Sec. 10. 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.

Sec. 11. This order is effective at 1:00 p.m. eastern
daylight time on May 18, 2011.

    (Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

    May 18, 2011.