[House Document 108-69]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
108th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 108-69
TERMINATION OF EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO THE ACTIONS AND POLICIES OF
UNITA AND REVOCATION OF RELATED EXECUTIVE ORDERS
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MESSAGE
from
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
transmitting
NOTIFICATION TO TERMINATE THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO UNITA
AND TO LIFT THE SANCTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN USED TO APPLY ECONOMIC
PRESSURE ON UNITA
May 7, 2003.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the Committee
on International Relations and ordered to be printed
To the Congress of the United States:
Pursuant to section 202 of the International Emergency
Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622, I hereby report that I
have issued an Executive Order (the ``Order''), that terminates
the national emergency described and declared 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 revokes that order, Executive Order 13069
of December 12, 1997, and Executive Order 13098 of August 18,
1998.
The Order will have the effect of lifting the sanctions
imposed on UNITA in Executive Orders 12865, 13069, and 13098.
These trade and financial sanctions were imposed to support
international efforts to force UNITA to abandon armed conflict
and return to the peace process outlined in the Lusaka
Protocol, as reflected in United Nations Security Council
Resolutions 864 (1993), 1127 (1997), and 1173 (1998).
The death of UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi in February 2002
enabled the Angolan government and UNITA to sign the Luena
Memorandum of Understanding on April 4, 2002. This agreement
established an immediate cease-fire and called for UNITA's
return to the peace process laid out in the 1994 Lusaka
Protocol. In accordance therewith, UNITA quartered all its
military personnel in established reception areas and handed
its remaining arms over to the Angolan government. In September
2002, the Angolan government and UNITA reestablished the Lusaka
Protocol's Joint Commission to resolve outstanding political
issues. On November 21, 2002, the Angolan government and UNITA
declared the provisions of the Lusaka Protocol fully
implemented and called for the lifting of sanctions on UNITA
imposed by the United Nations Security Council.
With the successful implementation of the Lusaka Protocol
and the demilitarization of UNITA, the circumstances that led
to the declaration of a national emergency on September 26,
1993, have been resolved. The actions and policies of UNITA no
longer pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign
policy of the United States. United Nations Security Council
Resolution 1448 (2002) lifted the measures imposed pursuant to
prior U.N. Security Council resolutions related to UNITA. The
continuation of sanctions imposed by Executive Orders 12865,
13069, and 13098 would have a prejudicial effect on the
development of UNITA as an opposition political party, and
therefore, on democratization in Angola. For these reasons, I
have determined that it is necessary to terminate the national
emergency with respect to UNITA and to lift the sanctions that
have been used to apply economic pressure on UNITA.
I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order I have issued.
This Order is effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on
May 7, 2003.
George W. Bush.
The White House, May 6, 2003.
Executive Order
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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 is 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.