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On April 21, 2016, the Federal Register published Executive Order 13726 of April 19, 2016 – Blocking Property and Suspending Entry Into the United States of Persons Contributing to the Situation in Libya. The Executive Order (EO) expands the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13566 of February 25, 2011, finding that the ongoing violence in Libya, including attacks by armed groups against Libyan state facilities, foreign missions in Libya, and critical infrastructure, as well as human rights abuses, violations of the arms embargo imposed by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1970 (2011), and misappropriation of Libya’s natural resources threaten the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, democratic transition, and territorial integrity of Libya, and thereby constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. The EO addresses this threat and United Nations Security Council Resolutions 2174 of August 27, 2014, and 2213 of March 27, 2015. Please check our Sanctions Blog for updates. |
