[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 39 (Monday, September 28, 1998)]
[Page 1867]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Notice--Continuation of Emergency With Respect to UNITA

September 23, 1998

    On September 26, 1993, by Executive Order 12865, I declared a 
national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to 
the foreign policy of the United States constituted by the actions and 
policies of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola 
(``UNITA''), prohibiting the sale or supply by United States persons or 
from the United States, or using U.S. registered vessels or aircraft, of 
arms, related materiel of all types, petroleum, and petroleum products 
to the territory of Angola, other than through designated points of 
entry. The order also prohibits the sale or supply of such commodities 
to UNITA. On December 12, 1997, in order to take additional steps with 
respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12865, I 
issued Executive Order 13069, closing all UNITA offices in the United 
States and imposing additional sanctions with regard to the sale or 
supply of aircraft or aircraft parts, the granting of take-off, landing 
and overflight permission, and the provision of certain aircraft-related 
services. Most recently, on August 19, 1998, in order to take further 
steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 
12865, I issued Executive Order 13098, blocking all property and 
interests in property of UNITA and designated UNITA officials and adult 
members of their immediate families, prohibiting the importation of 
certain diamonds exported from Angola, and imposing additional sanctions 
with regard to the sale or supply of equipment used in mining, motorized 
vehicles, watercraft, spare parts for motorized vehicles or watercraft, 
mining services, and ground or waterborne transportation services.
    Because of our continuing international obligations and because of 
the prejudicial effect that discontinuation of the sanctions would have 
on the Angolan peace process, the national emergency declared on 
September 26, 1993, and the measures adopted pursuant thereto to deal 
with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond September 26, 1998. 
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 UNITA.
    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
September 23, 1998.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., September 24, 
1998]

Note: This notice was published in the Federal Register on September 25.