[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

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                     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 

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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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