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try to mobilize your friends and the people Government by adding to that are affiliated with it, first of all, think the list of categories for which about how this is a specific example of the is prohibited in 11478 (i.e., kind of challenges we face at this moment race, color, religion, sex, national origin, in our history—all this technology, all these handicap, or age). changes, everything going on. And it is fun- This Executive order states administration damentally the test of a decent society and policy but does not and cannot create any certainly a great democracy like ours that we new enforcement rights (such as the ability embrace all the changes that are going on, to proceed before the Equal Employment but we do it in a way consistent with the Opportunity Commission). Those rights can basic values that got us where we are over be granted only by legislation passed by the the last 220 years. Secondly, remember to Congress, such as the Employment Non-Dis- put a human face on it, and remember every crimination Act. I again call upon Congress day that goes by that this bill does not pass— to pass this important piece of civil rights leg- every single day somewhere in America islation which would extend these basic em- there’s another story like Ricka’s. There ployment discrimination protections to all ought not to ever be another one, and with and Americans. Individuals your help we can stop it. should not be denied a job on the basis of Thank you, and God bless you. something that has no relationship to their ability to perform their work. NOTE: The President spoke at 10:50 a.m. in Room 450 of the Old Executive Office Building. In his remarks, he referred to Ricka Powers, breast can- Executive Order 13087—Further cer patient who introduced the President; and Re- Amendment to Executive Order gina Benjamin, M.D., member, board of trustees, American Medical Association. 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government Statement on Signing an Executive May 28, 1998 Order on Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal By the authority vested in me as President Government by the Constitution and the laws of the May 28, 1998 United States, and in order to provide for a uniform policy for the Federal Government Today I have signed an Executive order to prohibit discrimination based on sexual entitled ‘‘Further Amendment to Executive orientation, it is hereby ordered that Execu- Order 11478, Equal Employment Oppor- tive Order 11478, as amended, is further tunity in the Federal Government.’’ The amended as follows: order provides a uniform policy for the Fed- Section 1. The first sentence of section eral Government to prohibit discrimination 1 is amended by substituting ‘‘age, or sexual based on sexual orientation in the Federal orientation’’ for ‘‘or age’’. civilian workforce and states that policy for Sec. 2. The second sentence of section 1 the first time in an Executive order of the is amended by striking the period and adding President. at the end of the sentence ‘‘, to the extent It has always been the practice of this ad- permitted by law.’’. ministration to prohibit discrimination in em- William J. Clinton ployment based on sexual orientation in the civilian workforce, and most Federal agen- The White House, cies and departments have taken actions, May 28, 1998. such as the issuance of policy directives or memoranda from the agency heads, to me- [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., June 1, 1998] morialize that policy. The Executive order I have signed today will ensure that there is NOTE: This Executive order will be published in a uniform policy throughout the Federal the Federal Register on June 2.

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Notice—Continuation of Emergency United Nations Security Council Resolution With Respect to the Federal 1022 of November 22, 1995 (hereinafter the Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and ‘‘Resolution’’), was an essential factor moti- Montenegro) and the Bosnian Serbs vating Serbia and Montenegro’s acceptance May 28, 1998 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina initialed by On May 30, 1992, by Executive Order the parties in Dayton on November 21, 1995, 12808, President Bush declared a national and signed in Paris on December 14, 1995 emergency to deal with the unusual and ex- (hereinafter the ‘‘Peace Agreement’’). The traordinary threat to the national security, sanctions imposed on the Federal Republic foreign policy, and economy of the United of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) were States constituted by the actions and policies accordingly suspended prospectively, effec- of the Governments of Serbia and Montene- tive January 16, 1996. Sanctions imposed on gro, blocking all property and interests in the Bosnian Serb forces and authorities and property of those Governments. President on the territory that they control within Bos- Bush took additional measures to prohibit nia and Herzegovina were subsequently sus- trade and other transactions with the Federal pended prospectively, effective May 10, Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montene- 1996, also in conformity with the Peace gro) by Executive Order 12810 and 12831, Agreement and the Resolution. Sanctions issued on June 5, 1992, and January 15, 1993, against both the Federal Republic of Yugo- respectively. On April 25, 1993, I issued Ex- slavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and the Bos- ecutive Order 12846, blocking the property nian Serbs were subsequently terminated by and interests in property of all commercial, United Nations Security Council Resolution industrial, or public utility undertakings or 1074 of October 1, 1996. This termination, entities organized or located in the Federal however, did not end the requirement of the Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montene- Resolution that blocked funds and assets that gro), and prohibiting trade-related trans- are subject to claims and encumbrances re- actions by United States persons involving main blocked, until unblocked in accordance those areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina con- with applicable law. trolled by Bosnian Serb forces and the United Nations Protected Areas in the Re- In the last year, further substantial public of Croatia. On October 25, 1994, be- progress has been achieved to bring about cause of the actions and policies of the Bos- a settlement of the conflict in the former nian Serbs, I expanded the scope of the na- Yugoslavia acceptable to the parties. Another tional emergency by issuing Executive Order set of elections occurred in Bosnia and 12934 to block the property of the Bosnian Herzegovina, as provided for in the Peace Serb forces and the authorities in the terri- Agreement, and the Bosnian Serb forces tory that they control within Bosnia and have continued to respect the zones of sepa- Herzegovina, as well as the property of any ration as provided in the Peace Agreement. entity organized or located in, or controlled The ultimate disposition of the various re- by any person in, or resident in, those areas. maining categories of blocked assets is being On December 27, 1995, I issued Presi- addressed on a case-by-case basis. dential Determination No. 96–7, directing Until the status of all remaining blocked the Secretary of the Treasury, inter alia, to property is resolved, the Peace Agreement suspend the application of sanctions imposed implemented, and the terms of the Resolu- on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Ser- tion met, the national emergency declared bia and Montenegro) pursuant to the above- on May 30, 1992, as expanded in scope on referenced Executive orders and to continue October 25, 1994, and the measures adopted to block property previously blocked until pursuant thereto to deal with that emergency provision is made to address claims or en- must continue beyond May 30, 1998. cumbrances, including the claims of the Therefore, in accordance with section other successor states of the former Yugo- 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 slavia. This sanction relief, in conformity with U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing the national

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