For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
May 7, 2003
Executive Order
Executive Order: Termination of Emergency with Respect to the Actions and Policies of Unita and Revocation of Related Executive Orders
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 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.
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