Termination of Emergency With Respect to Sierra Leone and Liberia
Signed January 15, 2004·George W. Bush·69 FR 2823
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Terminates the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13194 regarding Sierra Leone and expanded by Executive Order 13213 to include Liberia, and revokes both orders. The order cites the end of the Sierra Leone conflict, a 2003 peace agreement ending the Liberian civil war, the dissolution of the Revolutionary United Front rebel group, the resignation and exile of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, Sierra Leone's adoption of a diamond certification system meeting Kimberley Process standards, and U.S. implementation of the Clean Diamond Trade Act restricting imports of uncertified rough diamonds. It specifies that ending the emergency does not affect prior legal actions, proceedings, penalties, or rights that arose before the change takes effect, and states it creates no enforceable rights against the United States. The termination takes effect at 12:01 a.m. eastern standard time on January 16, 2004, and the order is to be transmitted to Congress and published in the Federal Register.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, 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), and section 5 of the United Nations Participation Act of 1945, as amended (22 U.S.C. 287c),Continues into the order’s findings — show 216 more wordsHide the findings
I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that the situations that gave rise to the declaration of a national emergency in Executive Order 13194 of January 18, 2001, with respect to Sierra Leone and the expansion of the scope of that emergency in Executive Order 13213 of May 22, 2001, with respect to Liberia, have been significantly altered given that in January 2002 the Government of Sierra Leone, the Sierra Leonean rebel group Revolutionary United Front (RUF), and the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone declared the war in Sierra Leone to have ended; the parties to the Liberian civil war entered into a Comprehensive Peace Agreement in August 2003; the RUF no longer exists as a military organization; Charles Taylor, who was the prime instigator of violence both in Sierra Leone and in Liberia, has resigned from the Liberian presidency and gone into exile; the Government of Sierra Leone has established a rough diamond certification regime that meets the minimum standards of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme; and the United States has implemented the Clean Diamond Trade Act (Public Law 108-19), prohibiting the importation into the United States of rough diamonds that are not controlled through the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, currently including rough diamonds from Liberia. Accordingly, I hereby
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Disposition
Revokes: EO 13194, January 8, 2001; EO 13213, May 2, 2001
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13324 of January 15, 2004
Termination of Emergency With Respect to Sierra
Leone and Liberia
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States,
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), and section 5 of
the United Nations Participation Act of 1945, as
amended (22 U.S.C. 287c),
I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of
America, find that the situations that gave rise to the
declaration of a national emergency in Executive Order
13194 of January 18, 2001, with respect to Sierra Leone
and the expansion of the scope of that emergency in
Executive Order 13213 of May 22, 2001, with respect to
Liberia, have been significantly altered given that in
January 2002 the Government of Sierra Leone, the Sierra
Leonean rebel group Revolutionary United Front (RUF),
and the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone declared
the war in Sierra Leone to have ended; the parties to
the Liberian civil war entered into a Comprehensive
Peace Agreement in August 2003; the RUF no longer
exists as a military organization; Charles Taylor, who
was the prime instigator of violence both in Sierra
Leone and in Liberia, has resigned from the Liberian
presidency and gone into exile; the Government of
Sierra Leone has established a rough diamond
certification regime that meets the minimum standards
of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme; and the
United States has implemented the Clean Diamond Trade
Act (Public Law 108-19), prohibiting the importation
into the United States of rough diamonds that are not
controlled through the Kimberley Process Certification
Scheme, currently including rough diamonds from
Liberia. Accordingly, I hereby terminate the national
emergency declared and expanded in scope in those two
prior orders, revoke those orders, and further order:
Section 1. Pursuant to section 202 of the NEA (50
U.S.C. 1622), termination of the national emergency
declared in Executive Order 13194 and expanded in scope
in Executive Order 13213 shall not affect any action
taken or proceeding pending not finally concluded or
determined as of the effective date of this order, or
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,
instrumentalities, or entities, its officers or
employees, or any other person.
Sec. 3. This order is effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern
standard time on January 16, 2004. This order shall be
transmitted to the Congress and published in the
Federal Register.
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THE WHITE HOUSE,
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