[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 15 (Monday, April 18, 2005)]
[Page 595]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13377--Designating the African Union as a Public 
International Organization Entitled To Enjoy Certain Privileges, 
Exemptions, and Immunities

April 13, 2005

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including sections 1 and 12 of 
the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288 and 288f-
2), as amended by section 569(h) of the Foreign Operations, Export 
Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2005 (Division D of 
Public Law 108-447), it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Designation. The African Union is hereby designated as a 
public international organization entitled to enjoy the privileges, 
exemptions, and immunities provided by the International Organizations 
Immunities Act.
    Sec. 2. Non-Abridgement. The designation in section 1 of this order 
is not intended to abridge in any respect privileges, exemptions, or 
immunities that the African Union otherwise may have acquired or may 
acquire by law.
    Sec. 3. Revocation. Executive Order 11767 of February 19, 1974, is 
revoked.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 April 13, 2005.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., April 15, 
2005]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
April 18.