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Executive Order 10025—Designating Public International Organizations Entitled to Enjoy Certain Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities

December 30, 1948

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act, approved December 29, 1945 (59 Stat. 669), and having found that the United States participates in the following-named international organizations pursuant to a treaty or under the authority of an act of Congress authorizing such participation or making an appropriation therefor, I hereby designate such organizations as public international organizations entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and immunities conferred by the said International Organizations Immunities Act:

World Health Organization

Caribbean Commission

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

This order supplements Executive Orders 9698 of February 19, 1946, 9751 of July 11, 1946, 9823 of January 24, 1947, 9863 of May 31, 1947, 9887 of August 22, 1947, 9911 of December 19, 1947, and 9972 of June 25, 1948.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

December 30, 1948

Harry S Truman, Executive Order 10025—Designating Public International Organizations Entitled to Enjoy Certain Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/278295

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