Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
Signed April 1, 1996·William J. Clinton·61 FR 14949
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Designates the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization as a public international organization under the International Organizations Immunities Act, making it eligible for the privileges, exemptions, and immunities that law provides. The designation applies because the President found the organization to be one in which the United States participates. It does not limit any additional privileges, exemptions, or immunities the organization has gained or may gain through international agreements or acts of Congress.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (59 Stat. 669, 22 U.S.C. 288), and having found that the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization is a public international organization in which the United States participates within the meaning of the International Organizations Immunities Act, I hereby
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Executive Order 12997 of April 1, 1996
Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including section 1 of the International
Organizations Immunities Act (59 Stat. 669, 22 U.S.C.
288), and having found that the Korean Peninsula Energy
Development Organization is a public international
organization in which the United States participates
within the meaning of the International Organizations
Immunities Act, I hereby designate the Korean Peninsula
Energy Development Organization as a public
international organization entitled to enjoy the
privileges, exemptions, and immunities conferred by the
International Organizations Immunities Act. This
designation is not intended to abridge in any respect
privileges, exemptions, or immunities that such
organization may have acquired or may acquire by
international agreements or by congressional action.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
April 1, 1996.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed April 1, 1996. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.