[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 2 (Friday, January 3, 1997)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Page 587]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-230]
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Part V
The President
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Notice of January 2, 1997--Continuation of Libyan Emergency
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Title 3--
The President
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Notice of January 2, 1997
Continuation of Libyan Emergency
On January 7, 1986, by Executive Order No. 12543,
President Reagan declared a national emergency to deal
with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the
national security and foreign policy of the United
States constituted by the actions and policies of the
Government of Libya. On January 8, 1986, by Executive
Order No. 12544, the President took additional measures
to block Libyan assets in the United States. The
President has transmitted a notice continuing this
emergency to the Congress and the Federal Register
every year since 1986. The most recent notice appeared
in the Federal Register on January 5, 1996.
The crisis between the United States and Libya that led
to the declaration of a national emergency on January
7, 1986, has not been resolved. The Government of Libya
has continued its actions and policies in support of
terrorism, despite the calls by the United Nations
Security Council, in Resolutions 731 (1992), 748
(1992), and 883 (1993), that it demonstrate by concrete
actions its renunciation of such terrorism. Such Libyan
actions and policies pose a continuing unusual and
extraordinary threat to the national security and vital
foreign policy interests of the United States. For
these reasons, the national emergency declared on
January 7, 1986, and the measures adopted on January 7
and January 8, 1986, to deal with that emergency, must
continue in effect beyond January 7, 1997. Therefore,
in accordance with Section 202(d) of the National
Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing
the national emergency with respect to Libya. This
notice shall be published in the Federal Register and
transmitted to the Congress.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 2, 1997.
[FR Doc. 97-230
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