[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 19 (Monday, May 12, 2003)]
[Pages 553-554]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13298--Termination of Emergency With Respect to the 
Actions and Policies of UNITA and Revocation of Related Executive Orders

May 6, 2003

    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

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Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 
1601 et seq.) (NEA), section 5 of the United Nations Participation Act 
of 1945, as amended (22 U.S.C. 287c), and section 301 of title 3, United 
States Code, and in view of United Nations Security Council Resolution 
1448 of December 9, 2002,
    I, George W. Bush, President of the United States of America, find 
that the situation that gave rise to the declaration of a national 
emergency in Executive Order 12865 of September 26, 1993, with respect 
to the actions and policies of the National Union for the Total 
Independence of Angola (UNITA), and that led to the steps taken in that 
order and in Executive Order 13069 of December 12, 1997, and Executive 
Order 13098 of August 18, 1998, has been significantly altered by the 
recent and continuing steps toward peace taken by the Government of 
Angola and UNITA. Accordingly, I hereby terminate the national emergency 
declared in Executive Order 12865, revoke Executive Orders 12865, 13069, 
and 13098, and order:
    Section 1. Pursuant to section 202 of the NEA (50 U.S.C. 1622), 
termination of the national emergency with respect to the actions and 
policies of UNITA shall not affect any action taken or proceeding 
pending, not finally concluded or determined as of the effective date of 
this order, or any action or proceeding based on any act committed prior 
to the effective date of this order, or any rights or duties that 
matured or penalties that were incurred prior to the effective date of 
this order.
    Sec. 2. This order in not intended to, and does not, create any 
right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in 
equity by any party against the United States, or its departments, 
agencies, entities, officers, employees, or agents.
    Sec. 3. (a) This order is effective 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time 
on May 7, 2003.
    (b) This order shall be transmitted to the Congress and published in 
the Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 May 6, 2003.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:14 a.m., May 7, 
2003]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on May 7, and it was published in the Federal Register on May 
8.