[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1994, Book I)]
[June 10, 1994]
[Pages 1065-1066]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]



Memorandum on Air Transportation to Haiti
June 10, 1994

Memorandum for the Secretary of Transportation

Subject: Scheduled Air Service Ban

    In furtherance of the international effort to remove the de facto 
regime in Haiti and to restore the democratically elected Aristide 
government, I have taken certain steps in the Executive order that I 
issued today.
    In addition, I have determined that it is in the essential foreign 
policy interests of the Unit-


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ed States that additional action beyond that in Executive Order No. 
12914 of May 7, 1994, be taken regarding transportation by air to Haiti. 
I have determined that, with respect to regularly scheduled commercial 
passenger flights of U.S. and Haitian air carriers, and except to the 
extent provided in regulations, orders, directives, authorizations, or 
licenses that may be issued by the Department of the Treasury in 
consultation with the Departments of State and Transportation, the 
following is prohibited: the granting of permission to any aircraft to 
take off from, land in, or overfly the territory of 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 the territory of 
Haiti.
    The Department of Transportation should take appropriate action to 
implement this decision. That action should be effective as of 11:59 
p.m., eastern daylight time on June 24, 1994, and these measures should 
remain in effect until further notification.

                                                      William J. Clinton