[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1993, Book II)]
[September 26, 1993]
[Pages 1611-1612]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]



Message to the Congress on the National Emergency With Respect to UNITA
September 26, 1993

To the Congress of the United States:
    Pursuant to section 204(b) of the International Emergency Economic 
Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. section 1703(b), and section 301 of the National 
Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. section 1631, I hereby report that I have 
exercised my statutory

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authority to declare a national emergency with respect to the actions 
and policies of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola 
(``UNITA'') and to issue an Executive order prohibiting the sale or 
supply to Angola, other than through designated points of entry, or to 
UNITA, of arms and related materiel and petroleum and petroleum 
products, regardless of their origin, and activities that promote or are 
calculated to promote such sale or supply. These actions are mandated in 
part by United Nations Security Council Resolution No. 864 of September 
15, 1993.
    The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to issue regulations in 
exercise of my authorities under the International Emergency Economic 
Powers Act and the United Nations Participation Act, 22 U.S.C. section 
287c, to implement these prohibitions. All Federal agencies are also 
directed to take actions within their authority to carry out the 
provisions of the Executive order.
    I am enclosing a copy of the Executive order that I have issued. The 
order was effective immediately upon its signature on September 26, 
1993.
    I have authorized these measures in response to the actions and 
policies of UNITA in continuing military actions, repeated attempts to 
seize additional territory, and failure to withdraw its troops from the 
locations that it has occupied since the resumption of hostilities, in 
repeatedly attacking United Nations personnel working to provide 
humanitarian assistance, in holding foreign nationals against their 
will, in refusing to accept the results of the democratic elections held 
in Angola in 1992, and in failing to abide by the ``Acordos de Paz.'' 
The actions of UNITA constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to 
the foreign policy of the United States.
    On September 15, 1993, the United Nations Security Council adopted 
Resolution No. 864, condemning the activities of UNITA and demanding 
that UNITA accept unreservedly the results of the democratic election of 
September 30, 1992, and abide fully by the ``Acordos de Paz.'' The 
resolution decides that all states are required to prevent the sale or 
supply of arms and related materiel and petroleum and petroleum products 
to Angola, other than through named points of entry specified by the 
Government of Angola. The measures we are taking express our outrage at 
UNITA's continuing hostilities and failure to abide by the outcome of 
Angola's democratic election.

                                                      William J. Clinton

The White House,
September 26, 1993.

Note: This message was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
September 27. The Executive order is listed in Appendix D at the end of 
this volume.