Designating the African Union as a Public International Organization Entitled To Enjoy Certain Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities
Signed April 13, 2005·George W. Bush·70 FR 20263
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Designates the African Union as a public international organization eligible for the privileges, exemptions, and immunities provided under the International Organizations Immunities Act. The designation does not limit any other privileges, exemptions, or immunities the African Union already has or may later acquire under law. The order also revokes Executive Order 11767 of February 19, 1974.
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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 sections 1 and 12 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288 and 288f-2), as amended by section 569(h) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2005 (Division D of Public Law 108-447), it is hereby ordered
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Disposition
Revokes: EO 11767, February 19, 1974
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13377 of April 13, 2005
Designating the African Union as a Public
International Organization Entitled To Enjoy Certain
Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including sections 1 and 12 of the
International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C.
288 and 288f-2), as amended by section 569(h) of the
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related
Programs Appropriations Act, 2005 (Division D of Public
Law 108-447), it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Designation. The African Union is hereby
designated as a public international organization
entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and
immunities provided by the International Organizations
Immunities Act.
Sec. 2. Non-Abridgement. The designation in section 1
of this order is not intended to abridge in any respect
privileges, exemptions, or immunities that the African
Union otherwise may have acquired or may acquire by
law.
Sec. 3. Revocation. Executive Order 11767 of February
19, 1974, is revoked.
(Presidential Sig.)B
THE WHITE HOUSE,
April 13, 2005.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed April 13, 2005. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.