[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 139 (Wednesday, September 14, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5720-S5721]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGES

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 REPORT RELATIVE TO THE ISSUANCE OF AN EXECUTIVE ORDER TERMINATING THE 
  NATIONAL EMERGENCY ORIGINALLY DECLARED IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 13396 OF 
FEBRUARY 7, 2006, WITH RESPECT TO COTE d'IVOIRE, AND REVOKING EXECUTIVE 
                           ORDER 13396--PM 54

  The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the following message 
from the President of the United States, together with an accompanying 
report; which was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs:

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.

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  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.

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