[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 3 (Monday, January 22, 1996)]
[Page 77]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12986--International Union for Conservation of Nature 
and Natural Resources

January 18, 1996

    By virtue of the authority vested in me as President by the 
Constitution and the laws of the United States, including sections 1 and 
14 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288 et 
seq., as amended by section 426 of the Foreign Relations Authorization 
Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995, Public Law 103-236), I hereby extend to 
the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources 
the privileges and immunities that provide or pertain to immunity from 
suit. To this effect, the following sections of the International 
Organizations Immunities Act shall not apply to the International Union 
for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources:
    --Section 2(b), 22 U.S.C. 288a(b), that provides international 
      organizations and their property and assets with the same immunity 
      from suit and judicial process as is enjoyed by foreign 
      governments.
    --Section 2(c), 22 U.S.C. 288a(c), that provides that the property 
      and assets of international organizations shall be immune from 
      search and confiscation and that their archives shall be 
      inviolable.
    --Section 7(b), 22 U.S.C. 288d(b), that provides the representatives 
      of foreign governments in or to international organizations and 
      the officers and employees of such organizations with immunity 
      from suit and legal process relating to acts performed by them in 
      their official capacity and falling within their functions.
    This designation is not intended to abridge in any respect 
privileges, exemptions, or immunities that the International Union for 
Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources may have acquired or may 
acquire by international agreements or by congressional action.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
January 18, 1996.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:23 a.m., January 19, 
1996]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on January 19, and it was published in the Federal Register on 
January 22.