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Designation of One (1) Entity Pursuant to Executive Order 13582 of August 17, 2011, “Blocking Property of the Government of Syria and Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to Syria”

Notice published May 24, 2013 · 78 FR 31630

Document number
FR Doc. 2013-12448
Type
Notice
Published
May 24, 2013
Citation
78 FR 31630 (pages 31,630–31,631)
Action
Notice.
Effective
May 16, 2013
Dates
The designation by the Director of OFAC of the one (1) entity identified in this notice, pursuant to Executive Order 13582, is effective on May 16, 2013.
Official sources
PDF (govinfo.gov) · federalregister.gov

Summary

The Federal Register's summaryThe Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") is publishing the name of one (1) entity whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13582 of August 17, 2011, "Blocking Property of the Government of Syria and Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to Syria."

Executive orders cited

Text

As the Government Publishing Office publishes it. Pages OFAC printed as images (in recent notices, the lists of names) are in the official PDF.

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 101 (Friday, May 24, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31630-31631]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-12448]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Designation of One (1) Entity Pursuant to Executive Order 13582
of August 17, 2011, ``Blocking Property of the Government of Syria and
Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to Syria''

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control
(``OFAC'') is publishing the name of one (1) entity whose property and
interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13582 of
August 17, 2011, ``Blocking Property of the Government of Syria and
Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to Syria.''

DATES: The designation by the Director of OFAC of the one (1) entity
identified in this notice, pursuant to Executive Order 13582, is
effective on May 16, 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Compliance
Outreach & Implementation, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department
of the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW (Treasury Annex),
Washington, DC 20220, Tel.: 202/622-2490.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Electronic and Facsimile Availability

    This document and additional information concerning OFAC are
available from OFAC's Web site (www.treas.gov/ofac) or via facsimile
through a 24-hour fax-on-demand service, Tel.: 202/622-0077.

Background

    On August 17, 2011, the President issued Executive Order 13582,
``Blocking Property of the Government of Syria and Prohibiting Certain
Transactions With Respect to Syria,'' (the ``Order'') pursuant to,
inter alia, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C.
1701-06). In the Order, the President took additional steps with
respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13338 of
May 11, 2004, which was modified in scope and relied upon for
additional steps taken in Executive Order 13399 of April 25, 2006,
Executive Order 13460 of February 13, 2008, Executive Order 13572 of
April 29, 2011, and Executive Order 13573 of May 18, 2011.

[[Page 31631]]

    Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, 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 (1) the Government of Syria; (2) any person
determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the
Secretary of State, (a) 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 the Order; or (b) 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 the Order.
    On May 16, 2013, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with the
Department of State, designated, pursuant to one or more of the
criteria set forth in subsection 1(b) of the Order, one (1) entity
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to
Executive Order 13582.
    The listing for the entity on OFAC's list of Specially Designated
Nationals and Blocked Persons appear as follows:

Entity

    1. AL-DUNYA TELEVISION (a.k.a. ADDOUNIA TV; a.k.a. AL DOUNIA;
a.k.a. AL-DONYA TELEVISION CHANNEL; a.k.a. DUNIA LIMITED LIABILITY
COMPANY FOR INFORMATION; a.k.a. DUNIA TELEVISION), Information Free
Zone, Damascus, Syria [SYRIA].

    Dated: May 16, 2013.
John H. Battle,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2013-12448 Filed 5-23-13; 8:45 am]
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