[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 43, Number 10 (Monday, March 12, 2007)]
[Page 286]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13427--Extending Privileges and Immunities to the 
Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations

March 7, 2007

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including section 7(b) of the 
Department of State Authorities Act of 2006 (22 U.S.C. 288l), I hereby 
extend to the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United 
Nations in New York, and to its members, the privileges and immunities 
enjoyed by the diplomatic missions of member states to the United 
Nations, and members of such missions, subject to corresponding 
conditions and obligations.
    This extension of privileges and immunities is not intended to 
abridge in any respect privileges or immunities that the Permanent 
Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations in New York and 
its members otherwise may have acquired or may acquire by law.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 March 7, 2007.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., March 8, 
2007]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
March 9.