NOTICE
- - - - - - CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO BELARUS
On June 16, 2006, by Executive Order 13405, the President
declared a national emergency pursuant to the International
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to deal
with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national
security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by
the actions and policies of certain members of the Government of
Belarus and other persons to undermine Belarus's democratic
processes or institutions, manifested in the fundamentally
undemocratic March 2006 elections; to commit human rights abuses
related to political repression, including detentions and
disappearances; and to engage in public corruption, including by
diverting or misusing Belarusian public assets or by misusing
public authority.
On August 9, 2021, by Executive Order 14038, I expanded the
scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order
13405, finding that the Belarusian regime's harmful activities
and long-standing abuses aimed at suppressing democracy and the
exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Belarus -including illicit and oppressive activities stemming from the
August 9, 2020, fraudulent Belarusian presidential election and
its aftermath, such as the elimination of political opposition

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and civil society organizations and the regime's disruption and
endangering of international civil air travel -- constituted an
unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and
foreign policy of the United States.
The actions and policies of certain members of the
Government of Belarus and other persons, and the Belarusian
regime's harmful activities and long-standing abuses, continue
to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national
security and foreign policy of the United States. For this
reason, the national emergency declared in Executive Order
13405, which was expanded in scope in Executive Order 14038,
must continue in effect beyond June 16, 2024. 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 declared in Executive Order 13405.
This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and
transmitted to the Congress.

THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 13, 2024.
[FR Doc. 2024-13361 Filed: 6/13/2024 11:15 am; Publication Date: 6/14/2024]