[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 126 (Friday, June 29, 2001)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 34775-34776]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-16667]
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Part V
The President
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Proclamation 7452--Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants
of Persons Responsible for Actions That Threaten International
Stabilization Efforts in the Western Balkans, and Persons Responsible
for Wartime Atrocities in That Region
Executive Order 13219--Blocking Property of Persons Who Threaten
International Stabilization Efforts in the Western Balkans
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 126 / Friday, June 29, 2001 /
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 7452 of June 26, 2001
Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and
Nonimmigrants of Persons Responsible for Actions That
Threaten International Stabilization Efforts in the
Western Balkans, and Persons Responsible for Wartime
Atrocities in That Region
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
The United States has a vital interest in assuring
peace and stability in Europe. In the Western Balkans,
the United States is engaged, together with North
Atlantic Treaty Organization Allies, the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe, United Nations
missions, the European Union, and other international
organizations in an effort to achieve peace, stability,
reconciliation, and democratic development and to
facilitate the region's integration into the European
mainstream. The United States views full implementation
of the Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia and United
Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 in Kosovo as
critical to these efforts.
In furtherance of these objectives, the United States
has provided military, diplomatic, financial, and
logistical support to international institutions
established in the region and to civil and security
authorities. The United States has a direct and
significant interest in the success of such initiatives
and in the safety of personnel involved in them,
including numerous United States military and
Government officials.
In light of these objectives, I have determined that it
is in the interests of the United States to restrict
the entry into the United States of persons responsible
for actions that threaten international stabilization
efforts in the Western Balkans region, and of persons
responsible for wartime atrocities committed in that
region since 1991.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the
United States of America, by the authority vested in me
by the Constitution and laws of the United States,
including section 212(f) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act of 1952, as amended (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)),
and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, hereby
find that the unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant
entry into the United States of persons described in
section 1 of this proclamation would, except as
provided for in sections 2 and 3 of this proclamation,
be detrimental to the interests of the United States. I
therefore hereby proclaim that:
Section 1. The immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into
the United States of the following persons is hereby
suspended:
(a) Persons who, through violent or other acts: (i)
seek to obstruct the implementation of the Dayton Peace
Accords (the ``Dayton Agreements'') or United Nations
Security Council Resolution 1244 of June 10, 1999; (ii)
seek to undermine the authority or security of the
United Nations Interim Administration Mission in
Kosovo, the international security presence in Kosovo
known as the Kosovo Force, the Office of the High
Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the
international security presence in Bosnia known as the
Stabilization Force, the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe, the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, or other
international organizations and entities present in the
region pursuant to the Dayton Agreement or United
Nations Security Council resolutions,
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including but not limited to Resolutions 827, 1031, and
1244; (iii) seek to intimidate or to prevent displaced
persons or refugees from returning to their places of
residence in any area or state of the Western Balkans
region; or (iv) otherwise seek to undermine peace,
stability, reconciliation, or democratic development in
any area or state of the Western Balkans region.
(b) Persons who are responsible for directing,
planning, or carrying out wartime atrocities, including
but not limited to acts in furtherance of ``ethnic
cleansing,'' committed in any area or state of the
Western Balkans region since 1991.
Sec. 2. Section 1 of this proclamation shall not apply
with respect to any person otherwise covered by section
1 where entry of such person would not be contrary to
the interest of the United States.
Sec. 3. Persons covered by sections 1 and 2 of this
proclamation shall be identified by the Secretary of
State or the Secretary's designee, in his or her sole
discretion, pursuant to such procedures as the
Secretary may establish under section 5 of this
proclamation.
Sec. 4. Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed
to derogate from United States Government obligations
under applicable international agreements.
Sec. 5. The Secretary of State shall have
responsibility for implementing this proclamation
pursuant to such procedures as the Secretary may
establish.
Sec. 6. This proclamation is effective immediately and
shall remain in effect until such time as the Secretary
of State determines that it is no longer necessary and
should be terminated, either in whole or in part. The
Secretary of State shall advise the Attorney General of
such determination, which shall become effective upon
publication in the Federal Register.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord two
thousand one, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and twenty-fifth.
(Presidential Sig.)B
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