[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 51 (Monday, December 22, 1997)]
[Pages 2040-2041]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

<R04>
Executive Order 13069--Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to 
UNITA

December 12, 1997

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the 
National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), section 5 of the 
United Nations Participation Act of 1945, as amended (22 U.S.C. 287c) 
(UNPA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, in view of 
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1127 of August 28, 1997, and 
1130 of September 29, 1997, and in order 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, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United 
States of America, hereby order:
    Section 1. Except to the extent provided in regulations, orders, 
directives, or licenses issued pursuant to this order, and 
notwithstanding the existence of any rights or obligations conferred or 
imposed by any international agreement or any contract entered into or 
any license or permit granted prior to the effective date of this order, 
all UNITA offices located in the United States shall be immediately and 
completely closed.
    Sec. 2. Except to the extent provided in regulations, orders, 
directives, or licenses issued pursuant to this order, and 
notwithstanding the existence of any rights or obligations conferred or 
imposed by any international agreement or any contract entered into or 
any license or permit granted prior to the effective date of this order, 
the following are prohibited:
    (a) the sale, supply, or making available in any form, by United 
States persons or from the United States or using U.S.-registered 
vessels or aircraft, of any aircraft or aircraft components, regardless 
of origin:
    (i) to UNITA; or
    (ii) to the territory of Angola other than through a point of entry 
specified pursuant to section 4 of this order;
    (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 the aircraft, as part of the 
same flight or as a continuation of that flight, is destined to land in 
or has taken off from a place in the territory of Angola other than one 
specified pursuant to section 4 of this order;
    (d) the provision or making available 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, renewal, or making 
available of direct insurance with respect to:
    (i) any aircraft registered in Angola other than those specified 
pursuant to section 4 of this order; or
    (ii) any aircraft that entered the territory of Angola other than 
through a point of entry specified pursuant to section 4 of this order;
    (e) any transaction by any United States person or within the United 
States that evades or avoids, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding, 
or attempts to violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in this order.
    Sec. 3. For the purposes of this order:
    (a) the term ``person'' means an individual or entity;
    (b) the term ``entity'' means a partnership, association, trust, 
joint venture, corporation, or other organization;
    (c) the term ``United States person'' means any United States 
citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the law of the 
United States (including foreign branches), or any person in the United 
States;
    (d) the term ``UNITA'' includes:
    (i) the Uniao Nacional para a Independencia Total de Angola (UNITA), 
known in English as the ``National Union for the Total Independence of 
Angola;''
    (ii) the Forcas Armadas para a Liberacao de Angola (FALA), known in 
English as the ``Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola;'' and

[[Page 2041]]

    (iii) any person acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of any 
of the foregoing, including the Center for Democracy in Angola (CEDA).
    Sec. 4. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State and, as appropriate, other agencies, is hereby 
authorized to take such actions, including the specification of places, 
points of entry, and aircraft registered in Angola for purposes of 
section 2(a), (c), and (d) of this order, the authorization in 
appropriate cases of medical emergency flights or flights of aircraft 
carrying food, medicine, or supplies for essential humanitarian needs, 
and the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers 
granted to the President by IEEPA and UNPA as may be necessary to carry 
out the purposes of this order. The Secretary of the Treasury may 
redelegate any of these functions to other officers and agencies of the 
United States Government. All agencies of the United States Government 
are hereby directed to take all appropriate measures within their 
authority to carry out the provisions of this order, including 
suspension or termination of licenses or other authorizations in effect 
as of the effective date of this order.
    Sec. 5. Nothing contained in this order shall create any right or 
benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable by any party against the 
United States, its agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or 
employees, or any other person.
    Sec. 6. (a) This order is effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern standard 
time on December 15, 1997.
    (b) This order shall be transmitted to the Congress and published in 
the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
December 12, 1997.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:57 a.m., December 15, 
1997]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on December 15, and it was published in the Federal Register 
on December 16.