[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 38 (Tuesday, April 12, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 12, 1994]
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 REPORT CONCERNING NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO ANGOLA--MESSAGE 
                FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

  The SPEAKER pro tempore laid before the House the following message 
from the President of the United States; which was read and, together 
with the accompanying papers, without objection, referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed:

To the Congress of the United States:
  I hereby report to the Congress on the developments since September 
26, 1993, concerning the national emergency with respect to Angola that 
was declared in Executive Order No. 12865 of that date. This report is 
submitted pursuant to section 401(c) of the National Emergencies Act, 
50 U.S.C. 1641(c), and section 204(c) of the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(c).
  On September 26, 1993, I declared a national emergency with respect 
to Angola, invoking the authority, inter alia, of the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and the Untied 
Nations Participation Act of 1945 (22 U.S.C. 287c). Consistent with 
United Nations Security Council Resolution No. 864, dated September 15, 
1993, the order prohibits the sale or supply by United States persons 
or from the United States, or using U.S.-registered vessels or 
aircraft, of arms and related materiel of all types, including weapons 
and ammunition, military vehicles, equipment and spare parts, and 
petroleum and petroleum products to the territory of Angola other than 
through designated points of entry. The order also prohibits such sale 
or supply to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola 
(``UNITA''). United States persons are prohibited from activities that 
promote or are calculated to promote such sales or supplies, or from 
attempted violations, or from evasion or avoidance or transactions that 
have the purpose of evasion or avoidance, of the stated prohibitions. 
The order authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State, to take such actions including the 
promulgation of rules and regulations, as may be necessary to carry out 
the purposes of the order.
  1. On December 10, 1993, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign 
Assets Control (``FAC'') issued the UNITA (Angola) Sanctions 
Regulations (the ``Regulations'') (58 Fed. Reg. 64904) to implement the 
President's declaration of a national emergency and imposition of 
sanctions against UNITA. A copy of the Regulations is attached for 
reference.
  The Regulations prohibit the sale or supply by United States persons 
or from the United States, or using U.S.-registered vessels or 
aircraft, of arms and related materiel of all types, including weapons 
and ammunition, military vehicles, equipment and spare parts, and 
petroleum and petroleum products to UNITA or to the territory of Angola 
other than through designated points. United States persons are also 
prohibited from activities that promote or are calculated to promote 
such sales or supplies to UNITA or Angola, or from any transaction by 
any United States persons that evades or avoids, or has the purpose of 
evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set 
forth in the Executive order. Also prohibited are transactions by 
United States persons, or involving the use of U.S.-registered vessels 
or aircraft relating to transportation to Angola or to UNITA of goods 
the exportation of which is prohibited.
  The Government of Angola has initially designated the following 
points of entry as points in Angola to which the articles otherwise 
prohibited by the Regulations may be shipped: Airports: Luanda, and 
Katumbela, Benguela Province; Ports: Luanda, Lobito, Benguela Province, 
and Namibe, Namibe Province; and Entry Points: Malongo, Cabinda 
Province. Although no specific license is required by the Department of 
the Treasury for shipments to these designated points of entry (unless 
the item is destined for UNITA), any such exports remain subject to the 
licensing requirements of the Departments of State and/or Commerce.
  2. The expenses incurred by the Federal Government in the 6-month 
period from September 26, 1993, through March 25, 1994, that are 
directly attributable to the exercise of powers and authorities 
conferred by the declaration of a national emergency with respect to 
UNITA are reported at about $85,000, most of which represents wage and 
salary costs for Federal personnel. Personnel costs were largely 
centered in the Department of the Treasury (particularly in the FAC, 
the U.S. Customs Service, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for 
Enforcement, and the Office of the General Counsel) and the Department 
of State (particularly the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs and 
the Office of the Legal Adviser).
  I shall continue to report periodically to the Congress on 
significant developments, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1703(c).
                                                  William J. Clinton.  
  The White House, April 12, 1994.

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