[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 8 (Friday, January 11, 2002)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 1599-1600]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-918]


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                Executive Order 13251 of December 28, 2001

                
Providing an Order of Succession Within the 
                Department of State

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and laws of the United States of America, 
                including the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, 5 
                U.S.C. 3345 et seq., it is hereby ordered that:

                Section 1. Subject to the provisions of section 3 of 
                this order, the officers named in section 2, in the 
                order listed, shall act as, and perform the duties of, 
                the office of Secretary of State (Secretary) during any 
                period in which the Secretary has died, resigned, or 
                otherwise become unable to perform the functions and 
                duties of the office of Secretary.

                Sec. 2. Order of Succession.

                    (a) Deputy Secretary of State;
                    (b) Deputy Secretary of State for Management and 
                Resources;
                    (c) Under Secretary of State designated for 
                political affairs pursuant to section 2651a(b) of title 
                22, United States Code;
                    (d) Under Secretary of State designated for 
                management affairs pursuant to section 2651a(b) of 
                title 22, United States Code;
                    (e) The remaining Under Secretaries of State, in 
                the order in which they shall have taken the oath of 
                office as such;
                    (f) Assistant Secretaries of State designated for 
                regional bureaus pursuant to section 2651a(c) of title 
                22, United States Code, in the order in which they 
                shall have taken the oath of office as such;
                    (g) The following officers, in the order in which 
                they shall have taken the oath of office as such:

  (1) Remaining Assistant Secretaries of State;

  (2) Coordinator for Counterterrorism;

  (3) Director General of the Foreign Service; and

  (4) Legal Adviser;

                    (h) United States Representative to the United 
                Nations (New York);
                    (i) Deputy United States Representative to the 
                United Nations (New York);
                    (j) The following other United States 
                Representatives to the United Nations (New York), in 
                the order in which they shall have taken the oath of 
                office as such:

  (1) United States Representative to the United Nations for United Nations 
Management and Reform;

  (2) United States Representative to the United Nations on the Economic 
and Social Council of the United Nations; and

  (3) Alternate United States Representative to the United Nations for 
Special Political Affairs in the United Nations;

                    (k) The following Chiefs of Mission, in the order 
                listed:

  (1) United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom;

  (2) United States Ambassador to Canada;

  (3) United States Ambassador to Australia;

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  (4) United States Ambassador to Mexico;

  (5) United States Ambassador to Japan; and

  (6) United States Ambassador to India;

                    (l) The following officers, in the order in which 
                they shall have taken the oath of office as such:

  (1) United States Ambassadors at Large;

  (2) Counselor; and

  (3) Special Representatives of the President; and

                    (m) The remaining Chiefs of Mission, in the order 
                in which they shall have taken the oath of office as 
                such.

                Sec. 3. Exceptions.

                    (a) No individual who has not been appointed by the 
                President by and with the consent of the Senate shall 
                act as Secretary pursuant to this order.
                    (b) No individual who is serving in an office 
                listed in section 2(a)-(m) in an acting capacity shall 
                act as Secretary pursuant to this order.
                    (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this order, 
                the President retains discretion, to the extent 
                permitted by the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, 
                5 U.S.C. 3345 et seq., to depart from this order in 
                designating an acting Secretary.
                    (d) A successor office, intended to be the 
                equivalent of an office identified in section 2 of this 
                order, shall be deemed to be the position identified in 
                section 2 for purposes of this order.

                Sec. 4. Executive Order 12343 of January 27, 1982, is 
                hereby revoked.

                    (Presidential Sig.)B

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                     December 28, 2001.

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