[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 39 (Monday, September 30, 2002)]
[Pages 1608-1609]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Notice--Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to UNITA

September 23, 2002

    In accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act 
(50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency 
declared by the President on September 26, 1993, by Executive Order 
12865, 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). The 
order prohibits 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.
    The President took additional measures with respect to the national 
emergency declared in Executive Order 12865 by issuing Executive Orders 
13069 and 13098 on December 12, 1997, and August 18, 1998, respectively. 
Those orders close all UNITA offices in the United States, block all 
property and interests in property of UNITA and designated UNITA 
officials and adult members of their immediate families, prohibit the 
importation of certain diamonds exported from

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Angola, and impose additional sanctions with respect to the provision of 
mining and transportation equipment and 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, 2002. 
Therefore, I am continuing the national emergency with respect to UNITA.
    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 September 23, 2002.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., September 
24, 2002]

Note: This notice was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
September 24, and it was published in the Federal Register on September 
25.