[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 1 (Monday, January 6, 1997)]
[Pages 2-3]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Notice--Continuation of Libyan Emergency

January 2, 1997

    On January 7, 1986, by Executive Order No. 12543, President Reagan 
declared a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary 
threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States 
constituted by the actions and policies of the Government of Libya. On 
January 8, 1986, by Executive Order No. 12544, the President took 
additional measures to block Libyan assets in the United States. The 
President has transmitted a notice continuing this emergency to the 
Congress and the Federal Register every year since 1986. The most recent 
notice appeared in the Federal Register on January 5, 1996.
    The crisis between the United States and Libya that led to the 
declaration of a national emergency on January 7, 1986, has not been 
resolved. The Government of Libya has continued its actions and policies 
in support of terrorism, despite the calls by the United Nations 
Security Council, in Resolutions 731 (1992), 748 (1992), and 883 (1993), 
that it demonstrate by concrete actions its renunciation of such 
terrorism. Such Libyan actions and policies pose a continuing unusual 
and extraordinary threat to the national security and vital foreign 
policy interests of the United States. For these reasons, the national 
emergency declared on January 7, 1986, and

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the measures adopted on January 7 and January 8, 1986, to deal with that 
emergency, must continue in effect beyond January 7, 1997. Therefore, in 
accordance with Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 
U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing the national emergency with respect to 
Libya. This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
January 2, 1997.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:53 a.m., January 2, 
1997]

Note: This notice was published in the Federal Register on January 3.