[House Document 114-163]
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114th Congress, 2d Session - - - - - - - - - House Document 114-163
TERMINATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO COTE D'IVOIRE
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MESSAGE
from
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
transmitting
A NOTIFICATION OF THE TERMINATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 13396, WITH
RESPECT TO THE SITUATION IN OR IN RELATION TO COTE D'IVOIRE, PURSUANT
TO 50 U.S.C. 1703(b); PUBLIC LAW 95-223 SEC. 204(b); (91 STAT. 1627)
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September 14, 2016.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed
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U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE
59-011 WASHINGTON : 2016
To the Congress of the United States:
Consistent with subsection 204(b) of the International
Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(b), I hereby
report that I have issued an Executive Order that terminates
the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13396 of
February 7, 2006, and revokes that Executive Order.
The President issued Executive Order 13396 to deal with the
unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and
foreign policy of the United States constituted by the
situation in or in relation to Cote d'Ivoire, which had
resulted in the massacre of large numbers of civilians,
widespread human rights abuses, significant political violence
and unrest, and attacks against international peacekeeping
forces leading to fatalities. In Executive Order 13396, the
President addressed that threat by blocking the property and
interests in property of, among others, persons determined by
the Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the
Secretary of State, to constitute a threat to the peace and
national reconciliation process in Cote d'Ivoire, to be
responsible for serious violations of international law in Cote
d'Ivoire, or to have supplied arms to Cote d'Ivoire. Executive
Order 13396 also implemented United States sanctions
obligations under United Nations Security Council Resolution
(UNSCR) 1572 and subsequent resolutions.
I have determined that the situation in or in relation to
Cote d'Ivoire that gave rise to the national emergency declared
in Executive Order 13396 has improved significantly as a result
of the progress achieved in the stabilization of Cote d'Ivoire,
including the successful conduct of the October 2015
presidential election, progress on the management of arms and
related materiel, and the combating of illicit trafficking of
natural resources. With these advancements, and with the United
Nations Security Council's termination of sanctions obligations
on April 28, 2016, in UNSCR 2283, there is no further need for
the blocking of assets and other sanctions measures imposed by
Executive Order 13396. For these reasons I have determined that
it is necessary to terminate the national emergency declared in
Executive Order 13396 and revoke that order.
I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order I have issued.
Barack Obama.
The White House, September 14, 2016.
Executive Order
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Termination of Emergency With Respect to the Situation in or in
Relation to Cote d'Ivoire
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.), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C.
1601 et seq.) (NEA), section 5 of the United Nations
Participation Act, as amended (22 U.S.C. 287c), and section 301
of title 3, United States Code,
I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America,
find that the situation that gave rise to the declaration of a
national emergency in Executive Order 13396 of February 7,
2006, with respect to the situation in or in relation to Cote
d'Ivoire, including the massacre of large numbers of civilians,
widespread human rights abuses, significant political violence
and unrest, and attacks against international peacekeeping
forces leading to fatalities, has been significantly altered by
the progress achieved in the stabilization of Cote d'Ivoire,
including the successful conduct of the October 2015
presidential election, progress on the management of arms and
related materiel, and the combating of illicit trafficking of
natural resources. Accordingly, and in view of the removal of
multilateral sanctions by the United Nations Security Council
in Resolution 2283, I hereby terminate the national emergency
declared in Executive Order 13396, revoke that order, and
further order:
Section 1. Pursuant to section 202(a) of the NEA (50 U.S.C.
1622(a)), termination of the national emergency declared in
Executive Order 13396 shall not affect any action taken or
proceeding pending not finally concluded or determined as of
the date that this order is effective, any action or proceeding
based on any act committed prior to such date, or any rights or
duties that matured or penalties that were incurred prior to
such date.
Sec. 2. This order is not intended to, and does not, create
any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at
law or in equity by any party against the United States, its
departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or
agents, or any other person.
Sec. 3. This order is effective at 8:00 a.m. eastern
daylight time on September 14, 2016.
Barack Obama.
The White House, September 14, 2016.
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