On October 25, 2013, the Federal Register published Notice of October 23, 2013—Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Situation in or in Relation to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Notice continues for one year the National Emergency first declared on October 27, 2006, by Executive Order 13413, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701–1706), which ordered related measures blocking the property of certain persons contributing to the conflict in that country. The President took this action to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United States constituted by the situation in or in relation to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has been marked by widespread violence and atrocities that continue to threaten regional stability.