[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 48 (Monday, December 6, 1993)]
[Pages 2492-2493]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Notice on Continuation of Libyan Emergency

 December 2, 1993

    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.
    Because the Government of Libya has refused to comply with United 
Nations Security Council Resolution No. 748, calling upon it to renounce 
through concrete action its support for international terrorism, and has 
continued its actions and policies in support of such terrorism, 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 con- 


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tinue in effect beyond January 7, 1994. 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.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
December 2, 1993.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:22 p.m., December 3, 
1993]

Note: This notice was published in the Federal Register on December 6.