For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 24, 2002
Notice: Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Unita
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
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.
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