Termination of Emergency With Respect to Sierra Leone and Liberia
Terminates Emergency Orders for Sierra Leone and Liberia
What it does
Agencies must end the national emergency concerning Sierra Leone and Liberia and revoke the prior emergency orders.
Real-world impact
- Ends the national emergency and revokes earlier emergency orders affecting those countries.
- Keeps legal actions, rights, and penalties that arose before January 16, 2004 in effect.
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Summary
This order ends the national emergency that applied to Sierra Leone and Liberia and revokes the earlier emergency orders. It explains that conditions changed: the war in Sierra Leone ended in January 2002; Liberian parties signed a peace agreement in August 2003; the RUF no longer exists; Charles Taylor resigned and left the country; Sierra Leone now uses a diamond certification meeting the Kimberley Process; and the United States has banned uncertified rough diamonds.
The order preserves legal actions, rights, and penalties begun before its January 16, 2004 effective date.
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