    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 39 (Monday, September 27, 2004)]
    [Pages 2067-2068]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Message to the Congress on Termination of the National Emergency With
    Respect to Libya

    September 20, 2004

    To the Congress of the United States:

        Consistent with subsection 204(b) of the International Emergency
    Economic Powers

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    Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(b)(IEEPA), I hereby report that I have issued an
    Executive Order (the ``order'') that terminates the national emergency
    declared in Executive Order 12543 of January 7, 1986, and revokes that
    Executive Order, Executive Order 12544 of January 8, 1986, Executive
    Order 12801 of April 15, 1992, and Executive Order 12538 of November 15,
    1985. I have determined that the situation that gave rise to this
    national emergency has been significantly altered by Libya's commitments
    and actions to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction programs and
    its Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)-class missiles, and by
    other developments.
        Executive Order 12543 of January 7, 1986, imposed sanctions on Libya
    in response to policies and actions of the Government of Libya that
    constituted an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security
    and foreign policy of the United States. Those sanctions were modified
    in Executive Order 12544 of January 8, 1986, Executive Order 12801 of
    April 15, 1992, and supplemented Executive Order 12538 of November 15,
    1985.
        Based on Libya's recent commitments and actions to implement its
    December 19, 2003, commitment to eliminate its weapons of mass
    destruction programs and its MTCR-class missiles, and other
    developments, I have determined that the situation that gave rise to the
    national emergency declared in Executive Order 12543 has been
    significantly altered. My order, therefore, terminates that national
    emergency with respect to Libya and revokes Executive Orders 12543,
    12544, and 12801, and lifts the trade, commercial, and travel sanctions
    imposed against Libya based on that national emergency. The order also
    revokes Executive Order 12538, which blocked the import of petroleum
    products refined in Libya into the United States.
        While the order formally lifts sanctions under the national
    emergency with respect to Libya, it will not lift a wide variety of
    other sanctions imposed on Libya due to its designation as a state
    sponsor of terrorism under section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act
    (restriction on foreign assistance), section 40 of the Arms Export
    Control Act (restriction on arms exports), and section 6(j) of the
    Export Administration Act of 1979 (restriction on exports of certain
    items on the Commodity Control List), as well as other statutory
    restrictions applicable to Libya.

        I have enclosed a copy of the order, which is effective at 12:01
    a.m. eastern daylight time on September 21, 2004.

                                                    George W. Bush
    The White House,
    September 20, 2004.