Termination of Emergency With Respect to the Actions and Policies of Former Liberian President Charles Taylor
Signed November 12, 2015·Barack Obama·80 FR 71679
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Terminates the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13348, which addressed the actions of former Liberian President Charles Taylor and others involved in unlawfully depleting Liberian resources and secreting funds and property, and revokes that order. The termination is based on findings that Liberia has made significant democratic and institutional progress, including internationally recognized elections in 2005 and 2011 and the 2012 conviction and 50-year sentence of Charles Taylor, upheld on appeal. The order specifies that ending the emergency does not affect any pending legal actions, proceedings based on acts committed before this order, or rights and duties that had already matured. It creates no new enforceable rights for any party against the United States. The order took effect at 2:00 p.m. eastern standard time on November 12, 2015, and directs that it be transmitted to Congress and published in the Federal Register.
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Claimed authority
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.) (IEEPA), 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) (UNPA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code
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Disposition
Revokes: EO 13348, July 22, 2004
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13710 of November 12, 2015
Termination of Emergency With Respect to the
Actions and Policies of Former Liberian President
Charles Taylor
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.) (IEEPA), 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) (UNPA), 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
13348 of July 22, 2004, with respect to the actions and
policies of former Liberian President Charles Taylor
and other persons, in particular their unlawful
depletion of Liberian resources and their removal from
Liberia and secreting of Liberian funds and property,
has been significantly altered by Liberia's significant
advances to promote democracy and the orderly
development of its political, administrative, and
economic institutions, including presidential elections
in 2005 and 2011, which were internationally recognized
as freely held; the 2012 conviction of, and 50-year
prison sentence for, former Liberian President Charles
Taylor and the affirmation on appeal of that conviction
and sentence; and the diminished ability of those
connected to former Liberian President Charles Taylor
to undermine Liberia's progress. Accordingly, I hereby
terminate the national emergency declared in Executive
Order 13348, 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 13348 shall not affect any
action taken or proceeding pending not finally
concluded or determined as of the effective date of
this order, any action or proceeding based on any act
committed prior to the effective date, or any rights or
duties that matured or penalties that were incurred
prior to the effective date of this order.
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. (a) This order is effective at 2:00 p.m.
eastern standard time on November 12, 2015.
(b) This order shall be transmitted to the Congress
and published in the Federal Register.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
November 12, 2015.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed November 12, 2015. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.