[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 3 (Monday, January 19, 2004)]
[Pages 85-86]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13324--Termination of Emergency With Respect to Sierra 
Leone and Liberia

January 15, 2004

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States, 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), and section 5 of the United Nations 
Participation Act of 1945, as amended (22 U.S.C. 287c),
    I, George W. Bush, President of the United States of America, find 
that the situations that gave rise to the declaration of a national 
emergency in Executive Order 13194 of January 18, 2001, with respect to 
Sierra Leone and the expansion of the scope of that emergency in 
Executive Order 13213 of May 22, 2001, with respect to Liberia, have 
been significantly altered given that in January 2002 the Government of 
Sierra Leone, the Sierra Leonean rebel group Revolutionary United Front 
(RUF), and the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone declared the war 
in Sierra Leone to have ended; the parties to the Liberian civil war 
entered into a Comprehensive Peace Agreement in August 2003; the RUF no 
longer exists as a military organization; Charles Taylor, who was the 
prime instigator of violence both in Sierra Leone and in Liberia, has 
resigned from the Liberian presidency and gone into exile; the 
Government of Sierra Leone has established a rough diamond certification 
regime that meets the minimum standards of the Kimberley Process 
Certification Scheme; and the United States has implemented the Clean 
Diamond Trade Act (Public Law 108-19), prohibiting the importation into 
the United States of rough diamonds that are not controlled through the 
Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, currently including rough 
diamonds from Liberia. Accordingly, I hereby terminate the national 
emergency declared and expanded in scope in those two prior orders, 
revoke those orders, and further order:
    Section 1. Pursuant to section 202 of the NEA (50 U.S.C. 1622), 
termination of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13194 
and expanded in scope in Executive Order 13213 shall not affect any 
action taken or proceeding pending not finally concluded or determined 
as of the effective date of this order, or 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, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers or employees, or 
any other person.
    Sec. 3. This order is effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern standard time 
on January 16, 2004. This order shall be transmitted to the Congress and 
published in the Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 January 15, 2004.

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 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:38 a.m., January 16, 
2004]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on January 16, and it will be published in the Federal 
Register on January 20.