[Presidential documents]: “On April 12, 2010, by Executive Order 13536, the President declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701–1706) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by the deterioration of the security situation and the persistence of violence in Somalia, acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea off the coast of Somalia—which have repeatedly been the subject of United Nations Security Council resolutions—and violations of the arms embargo imposed by the United Nations Security Council.”
83 FR 14731-32
Published 04-05-2018