For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
August 8, 2003

Executive Order

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including subsection 402(c)(2) and (d) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the "Act") (19 U.S.C. 2432(c)(2) and (d)), and having made the report to the Congress set forth in subsection 402(c)(2), I hereby waive the application of subsections (a) and (b) of section 402 of the Act with respect to Turkmenistan.

GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

August 8, 2003.

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