Executive Order 13573

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,

I,, President of the United States of America, in order to take additional steps with respect to the Government of Syria's continuing escalation of violence against the people of Syria including through attacks on protestors, arrests and harassment of protestors and political activists, and repression of democratic change, overseen and executed by numerous elements of the Syrian government and with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13338 of May 11, 2004, relied upon for additional steps taken in Executive Order 13399 of April 25, 2006, and in Executive Order 13460 of February 13, 2008, and expanded in scope in Executive Order 13572 of April 29, 2011, hereby order:

Barack Obama The White House, May 18, 2011. [FR Doc. 2011–12645 Filed 5–19–11; 8:45 am] Billing Code 3195–W1–P Billing Code 4811–33–C

Annex

Individuals  Bashar AL-ASSAD [President of the Syrian Arab Republic, born September 11, 1965]

Farouk AL-SHARA [Vice President, born 1938]

Adel SAFAR [Prime Minister, born 1953]

Mohammad Ibrahim AL-SHAAR [Minister of the Interior, born 1950]

Ali Habib MAHMOUD [Minister of Defense, born 1939]<BR /></li>

<li>Abdul Fatah QUDSIYA [Head of Syrian Military Intelligence, born circa 1950]<BR /></li>

<li>Mohammed Dib ZAITOUN [Director of Political Security Directorate, born circa 1952]<BR /></li> </ol> <BR/>