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59–011 2016

114th Congress, 2d Session – – – – – – – – – – – – House Document 114–163 

TERMINATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH 

RESPECT TO COˆ TE D’IVOIRE 

MESSAGE 

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRANSMITTING

A NOTIFICATION OF THE TERMINATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 

13396, WITH RESPECT TO THE SITUATION IN OR IN RELATION 

TO COˆ TE D’IVOIRE, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1703(b); PUBLIC LAW 

95–223 SEC. 204(b); (91 STAT. 1627) 

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016.—Message and accompanying papers referred to the 

Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed 


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To the Congress of the United States: 

Consistent with subsection 204(b) of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(b), I hereby report that 

I have issued an Executive Order that terminates the national 

emergency declared in Executive Order 13396 of February 7, 2006, 

and revokes that Executive Order. 

The President issued Executive Order 13396 to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign 

policy of the United States constituted by the situation in or in relation to Coˆte d’Ivoire, which had resulted in the massacre of large 

numbers of civilians, widespread human rights abuses, significant 

political violence and unrest, and attacks against international 

peacekeeping forces leading to fatalities. In Executive Order 13396, 

the President addressed that threat by blocking the property and 

interests in property of, among others, persons determined by the 

Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of 

State, to constitute a threat to the peace and national reconciliation 

process in Coˆte d’Ivoire, to be responsible for serious violations of 

international law in Coˆte d’Ivoire, or to have supplied arms to Coˆte 

d’Ivoire. Executive Order 13396 also implemented United States 

sanctions obligations under United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1572 and subsequent resolutions. 

I have determined that the situation in or in relation to Coˆte 

d’Ivoire that gave rise to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13396 has improved significantly as a result of the 

progress achieved in the stabilization of Coˆte d’Ivoire, including the 

successful conduct of the October 2015 presidential election, 

progress on the management of arms and related materiel, and the 

combating of illicit trafficking of natural resources. With these advancements, and with the United Nations Security Council’s termination of sanctions obligations on April 28, 2016, in UNSCR 2283, 

there is no further need for the blocking of assets and other sanctions measures imposed by Executive Order 13396. For these reasons I have determined that it is necessary to terminate the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13396 and revoke 

that order. 

I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order I have issued. 

BARACK OBAMA. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, September 14, 2016. 


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EXECUTIVE ORDER

TERMINATION OF EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO THE SITUATION IN

OR IN RELATION TO COˆ TE D’IVOIRE

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution 

and the laws of the United States of America, 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), section 5 of the United Nations Participation Act, as amended (22 

U.S.C. 287c), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, 

I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, 

find that the situation that gave rise to the declaration of a national emergency in Executive Order 13396 of February 7, 2006, 

with respect to the situation in or in relation to Coˆte d’Ivoire, including the massacre of large numbers of civilians, widespread 

human rights abuses, significant political violence and unrest, and 

attacks against international peacekeeping forces leading to fatalities, has been significantly altered by the progress achieved in the 

stabilization of Coˆte d’Ivoire, including the successful conduct of 

the October 2015 presidential election, progress on the management of arms and related materiel, and the combating of illicit trafficking of natural resources. Accordingly, and in view of the removal of multilateral sanctions by the United Nations Security 

Council in Resolution 2283, I hereby terminate the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13396, revoke that order, and 

further order: 

Section 1. Pursuant to section 202(a) of the NEA (50 U.S.C. 

1622(a)), termination of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13396 shall not affect any action taken or proceeding 

pending not finally concluded or determined as of the date that this 

order is effective, 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, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other 

person. 

Sec. 3. This order is effective at 8:00 a.m. eastern daylight time 

on September 14, 2016. 

BARACK OBAMA. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, September 14, 2016. 

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