Executive Order 11059—Designating Public International Organizations Entitled to Enjoy Certain Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities

WHEREAS the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission is an international organization in which the United States participates pursuant to the Convention with Costa Rica for the Establishment of an Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, May 31, 1949, 1 UST 230, TIAS 2044; and

WHEREAS the Great Lakes Fishery Commission is an international organization in which the United States participates pursuant to the Convention with Canada for the Establishment of a Great Lakes Fishery Commission, September 10, 1954, 6 UST 2836; TIAS 3326; and

WHEREAS the International Pacific Halibut Commission is an international organization in which the United States participates pursuant to the Convention with Canada for the Preservation of the Halibut Fishery of the Northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, March 2, 1953, 5 UST 5; TIAS 2900, being the last of a series of similar treaties dating from 1923:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (59 Stat. 669; 22 U.S.C. 288), I hereby designate the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, and the International Pacific Halibut Commission as public international organizations entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and immunities conferred by the International Organizations Immunities Act, except those conferred pursuant to Sections 4(b), 4(e), and 5 (a) of that Act.

The designation of the above-named international organizations as public international organizations within the meaning of the International Organizations Immunities Act is not intended to abridge in any respect privileges, exemptions, and immunities which these organizations may have acquired or may acquire by treaty or congressional action.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

THE WHITE HOUSE,

October 23, 1962