Executive Order 10864—Designating the Pan American Health Organization as a Public International Organization Entitled To Enjoy Certain Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities

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 Pan American Health Organization pursuant to the authority of the Pan American Sanitary Convention ratified by the President on March 28, 1925, with the advice and consent of the Senate given on February 23, 1925 (44 Stat. 2031, TS 714), I hereby designate the Pan American Health Organization as a public international organization entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and immunities conferred by the International Organizations Immunities Act.

The designation of the Pan American Health Organization as a public international organization within the meaning of the International Organizations Immunities Act is not intended to abridge In any respect privileges, exemptions, and immunities which that organization may have acquired or may acquire by treaty or congressional action.

The designation of the Pan American Health Organization made by this order shall be deemed to include the designation of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau. The designation of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau made by Executive Order No. 9751 of July 11, 1946, is hereby superseded, and that order Is amended accordingly.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

February 18, 1960.