[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 241 (Tuesday, December 16, 1997)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 65989-65990]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-33034]
                        Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 241 / Tuesday, December 16, 1997 /
Presidential Documents
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                Executive Order 13069 of December 12, 1997
Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to
                UNITA
                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.) (IEEPA), the
                National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.),
                section 5 of the United Nations Participation Act of
                1945, as amended (22 U.S.C. 287c)(UNPA), and section
                301 of title 3, United States Code, in view of United
                Nations Security Council Resolution 1127 of August 28,
                1997, and 1130 of September 29, 1997, and in order to
                take additional steps with respect to the actions and
                policies of the National Union for the Total
                Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the national
                emergency declared in Executive Order 12865, I, WILLIAM
                J. CLINTON, President of the United States of America,
                hereby order:
                Section 1. Except to the extent provided in
                regulations, orders, directives, or licenses issued
                pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding the
                existence of any rights or obligations conferred or
                imposed by any international agreement or any contract
                entered into or any license or permit granted prior to
                the effective date of this order, all UNITA offices
                located in the United States shall be immediately and
                completely closed.
                Sec. 2. Except to the extent provided in regulations,
                orders, directives, or licenses issued pursuant to this
                order, and notwithstanding the existence of any rights
                or obligations conferred or imposed by any
                international agreement or any contract entered into or
                any license or permit granted prior to the effective
                date of this order, the following are prohibited:
                    (a) the sale, supply, or making available in any
                form, by United States persons or from the United
                States or using U.S.-registered vessels or aircraft, of
                any aircraft or aircraft components, regardless of
                origin:
                    (i) to UNITA; or
                    (ii) to the territory of Angola other than through
                a point of entry specified pursuant to section 4 of
                this order;
                    (b) the insurance, engineering, or servicing by
                United States persons or from the United States of any
                aircraft owned or controlled by UNITA;
                    (c) the granting of permission to any aircraft to
                take off from, land in, or overfly the United States if
                the aircraft, as part of the same flight or as a
                continuation of that flight, is destined to land in or
                has taken off from a place in the territory of Angola
                other than one specified pursuant to section 4 of this
                order;
                    (d) the provision or making available by United
                States persons or from the United States of engineering
                and maintenance servicing, the certification of
                airworthiness, the payment of new claims against
                existing insurance contracts, or the provision,
                renewal, or making available of direct insurance with
                respect to:
                    (i) any aircraft registered in Angola other than
                those specified pursuant to section 4 of this order; or
                    (ii) any aircraft that entered the territory of
                Angola other than through a point of entry specified
                pursuant to section 4 of this order;
                    (e) any transaction by any United States person or
                within the United States that evades or avoids, or has
                the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to
                violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in this
                order.
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                Sec. 3. For the purposes of this order:
                    (a) the term ``person'' means an individual or
                entity;
                    (b) the term ``entity'' means a partnership,
                association, trust, joint venture, corporation, or
                other organization;
                    (c) the term ``United States person'' means any
                United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity
                organized under the laws of the United States
                (including foreign branches), or any person in the
                United States;
                    (d) the term ``UNITA'' includes:
                    (i) the Uniao Nacional para a Independencia Total
                de Angola (UNITA), known in English as the ``National
                Union for the Total Independence of Angola;''
                    (ii) the Forcas Armadas para a Liberacao de Angola
                (FALA), known in English as the ``Armed Forces for the
                Liberation of Angola;'' and
                    (iii) any person acting or purporting to act for or
                on behalf of any of the foregoing, including the Center
                for Democracy in Angola (CEDA).
                Sec. 4. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation
                with the Secretary of State and, as appropriate, other
                agencies, is hereby authorized to take such actions,
                including the specification of places, points of entry,
                and aircraft registered in Angola for purposes of
                section 2(a), (c), and (d) of this order, the
                authorization in appropriate cases of medical emergency
                flights or flights of aircraft carrying food, medicine,
                or supplies for essential humanitarian needs, and the
                promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ
                all powers granted to the President by IEEPA and UNPA
                as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this
                order. The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any
                of these functions to other officers and agencies of
                the United States Government. All agencies of the
                United States Government are hereby directed to take
                all appropriate measures within their authority to
                carry out the provisions of this order, including
                suspension or termination of licenses or other
                authorizations in effect as of the effective date of
                this order.
                Sec. 5. Nothing contained in this order shall create
                any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
                enforceable by any party against the United States, its
                agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or
                employees, or any other person.
                Sec. 6. (a) This order is effective at 12:01 a.m.
                eastern standard time on December 15, 1997.
                    (b) This order shall be transmitted to the Congress
                and published in the Federal Register.
                    (Presidential Sig.)
                THE WHITE HOUSE,
                    December 12, 1997.
[FR Doc. 97-33034
Filed 12-15-97; 10:57 am]
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