    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1999, Book I)]
    [May 1, 1999]
    [Page 666]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Statement on Additional Economic Sanctions Against the Federal Republic
    of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)
    May 1, 1999

        At the NATO Summit, the 19 Allied leaders agreed to intensify
    economic pressure on the Belgrade regime, in support of our united
    effort to stand up to ethnic cleansing and restore the people of Kosovo
    to their land with security and self-government. Today I have signed an
    Executive order strengthening economic sanctions against the Federal
    Republic of Yugoslavia.
        The measures included in the Executive order buttress U.S. sanctions
    already in place against the Milosevic regime. Under the expanded
    sanctions, we will, among other things, ban exports and re-exports to
    and imports from the FRY, including petroleum and strategic goods, and
    freeze all property and property interests of the FRY Government in the
    United States or controlled by U.S. entities.
        We will retain the current exemptions for Montenegro, because of our
    strong support for its democratically elected, multiethnic government.
    And we will apply these sanctions with consideration for the
    humanitarian needs of displaced people in Kosovo and other civilians and
    consistent with our new policy of exempting from sanctions commercial
    sales of food and medicine.
        With these strengthened sanctions, we will diminish the Belgrade
    regime's ability to continue its campaign of repression and defiance,
    while allowing needed supplies to reach victims of its reckless and
    brutal conduct, whatever their ethnicity or faith.

    Note: The Executive order of April 30 is listed in Appendix D at the end
    of this volume.