Barack Obama extends illegal sanctions against Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwe Guardian

BELOW is the full text of an executive order issued by the US President Barack Obama, extending the illegal and discredited sanctions on Zimbabwe for another year.
The extension comes as calls for the removal of the ruinous embargo have intensified in Zimbabwe.
An anti-sanctions petition was launched by President Mugabe last week and the country has warned businesses that come from countries which imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe that they risk government takeover if they do not call for an end to the sanctions.
The National Anti-Sanctions Petition Campaign, the Government seeks more than two million signatures from Zimbabweans opposed to the sanctions.
People append their names, signatures and identification numbers to register their protest to the West and to demand an immediate end to the widely-discredited embargo.
The campaign will be conducted at district and provincial level while an Internet-based offensive to incorporate Zimbabweans in the Diaspora will also be rolled out.

Full text:

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release March 02, 2011

NOTICE

CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO ZIMBABWE

On March 6, 2003, by Executive Order 13288, the President declared a national emergency and blocked the property of persons undermining democratic processes or institutions in Zimbabwe, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706). He took this action to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United States constituted by the actions and policies of certain members of the Government of Zimbabwe and other persons to undermine Zimbabwe's democratic processes or institutions. These actions and policies have contributed to the deliberate breakdown in the rule of law in Zimbabwe, to politically motivated violence and intimidation in that country, and to political and economic instability in the southern African region.

On November 22, 2005, the President issued Executive Order 13391 to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13288 by ordering the blocking of the property of additional persons undermining democratic processes or institutions in Zimbabwe.

On July 25, 2008, the President issued Executive Order 13469, which expanded the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13288 and ordered the blocking of the property of additional persons undermining democratic processes or institutions in Zimbabwe.

Because the actions and policies of these persons continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United States, the national emergency declared on March 6, 2003, and the measures adopted on that date, on November 22, 2005, and on July 25, 2008, to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond March 6, 2011. Therefore, 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 the actions and policies of certain members of the Government of Zimbabwe and other persons to undermine Zimbabwe's democratic processes or institutions.

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

BARACK OBAMA

THE WHITE HOUSE,

March 2, 2011.