    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1997, Book II)]
    [December 12, 1997]
    [Pages 1765-1766]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Letter to Congressional Leaders on Additional Sanctions Against UNITA
    December 12, 1997

    Dear Mr. Speaker:  (Dear Mr. President:)
        Pursuant to section 204(b) of the International Emergency Economic
    Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(b), I hereby report to the Congress that I
    have exercised my statutory authority to take additional steps with
    respect to the actions and policies of the National Union for the Total
    Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the national emergency declared in
    Executive Order 12865.
        The circumstances that led to the declaration on September 26, 1993,
    of a national emergency have not been resolved. The actions and policies
    of UNITA pose a continuing unusual and extraordinary threat to the
    foreign policy of the United States. United Nations Security Council
    Resolution 864 (1993) imposed prohibitions against the sale of weapons,
    military materiel, and petroleum products to UNITA. United Nations
    Security Council Resolution 1127 of August 28, 1997, and 1130 of
    September 29, 1997, determined that all Member States shall impose
    additional sanctions against UNITA due to the serious difficulties in
    the Angolan peace process resulting from delays by UNITA in the
    implementation of its essential obligations as established by the Lusaka
    Peace Protocol of November 20, 1994.
        Accordingly, and pursuant to the requirements of United Nations
    Security Council Resolution 1127, I have issued an Executive order
    which: (1) orders the closure of all UNITA offices in the United States,
    and (2) prohibits: (a) the sale or supply in any form, by United States
    persons or from the United States or using U.S. registered aircraft, of
    any aircraft or aircraft components to UNITA, or to any location within
    Angola other than those specified by the Secretary of the Treasury in
    consultation with the Secretary of State; (b) the insurance, engineering
    or servicing by United States persons or from the United States of any
    aircraft owned or controlled by UNITA; (c) the granting of permission to
    any aircraft to take off from, land in, or overfly the United States if
    it is destined to land in or has taken off from any location in Angola
    not specified by the Secretary of the Treasury in consultation with the
    Secretary of State; and (d) the provision by United States persons or
    from the United States of engineering and maintenance servicing, the
    certification of airworthiness, the payment of new claims against
    existing insurance contracts, or the provision or renewal of insurance
    to any aircraft registered in Angola not specified by the Secretary of
    the Treasury in consultation with the Secretary of State or to any
    aircraft that entered Angola through any location not specified by the
    Secretary of the Treasury in consultation with the Secretary of State.
        In furtherance of the goals of United Nations Security Council
    Resolution 1127 and of the foreign policy interests of the United
    States, the authorization of exemptions for flights responding to
    medical emergencies or for essential humanitarian and peace process
    mediation needs is implicit in this order.
        Under the terms of this order, UNITA includes: (1) the National
    Union for the Total Independence of Angola; (2) the Armed Forces for the
    Liberation of Angola (FALA); and (3) any person acting or purporting to
    act for or on behalf of the foregoing, including the Center for
    Democracy in Angola (CEDA).
        The United Nations Security Council acted to impose these additional
    sanctions in response to the actions and policies of UNITA in failing to
    comply with its obligations under the Lusaka Peace Protocol and thereby
    jeopardizing the return of peace to Angola. The United Nations Security
    Council resolutions demand UNITA's compliance with those obligations,
    including demilitarization of all its forces, transformation of its
    radio station into a nonpartisan broadcasting

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    facility, and full cooperation in the process of normalization of
    government authority throughout Angola.
        The above measures will immediately demonstrate to UNITA the
    seriousness of our concern over its delays to the peace process. It is
    particularly important for the United States and the international
    community to demonstrate to UNITA the necessity of completing the peace
    process in Angola. The flight restrictions will further limit UNITA's
    capacity to import weapons and military materiel in violation of United
    Nations Security Council Resolution 864 (1993).
        When UNITA fully complies with its obligations and completes its
    transition from armed movement to unarmed political party, the United
    States will support measures lifting these sanctions.
            Sincerely,

                                                          William J. Clinton

    Note: Identical letters were sent to Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the House
    of Representatives, and Albert Gore, Jr., President of the Senate. This
    letter was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on December 15.
    The Executive order is listed in Appendix D at the end of this volume.