[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 38 (Monday, September 27, 1999)]
[Page 1786]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Notice--Continuation of Emergency With Respect to UNITA

September 21, 1999

    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, or 
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. On August 18, 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 prospects for peace in Angola, 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, 1999. 
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 21, 1999.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., September 22, 
1999]

Note: This notice was published in the Federal Register on September 23.