    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1994, Book II)]
    [October 25, 1994]
    [Pages 1870-1872]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Letter to Congressional Leaders on Additional Measures Against the
    Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)
    October 25, 1994

    Dear Mr. Speaker:  (Dear Mr. President:)
        On May 30, 1992, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic
    Powers Act (IEEPA), 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq., and the National Emergencies
    Act (NEA), 50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq., President Bush exercised his
    statutory authority to issue Executive Order No. 12808, declaring a
    national emergency with respect to the actions and policies of the
    Governments of Serbia and Montenegro and blocking Yugoslav Government
    property.
        On June 5, 1992, pursuant to the above authorities, as well as
    section 1114 of the Federal Aviation Act (49 U.S.C. App. 1514), and
    section

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    5 of the United Nations Participation Act of 1945, as amended (UNPA),
    (22 U.S.C. 287c), the President exercised his statutory authority to
    issue Executive Order No. 12810, blocking property of, and prohibiting
    transactions with, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and
    Montenegro). This latter action was taken to ensure that the economic
    measures taken by the United States with respect to the Federal Republic
    of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) conform to United Nations Security
    Council Resolution 757 of May 30, 1992.
        On January 15, 1993, President Bush exercised his statutory
    authority under IEEPA, the UNPA, and the NEA to issue Executive Order
    No. 12831 to impose additional economic measures with respect to the
    Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) in accordance
    with United Nations Security Council Resolutions 757 of May 30, 1992,
    and 787 of November 16, 1992. Those additional measures prohibited
    transactions related to transshipments through the Federal Republic of
    Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), as well as transactions related to
    vessels owned or controlled by persons or entities in the Federal
    Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro).
        On April 25, 1993, I exercised my statutory authority under IEEPA,
    the UNPA, and the NEA to issue Executive Order No. 12846 to impose
    additional economic measures with respect to the Federal Republic of
    Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) in accordance with United Nations
    Security Council Resolutions 757 of May 30, 1992, 787 of November 16,
    1992, and 820 of April 17, 1993. These additional measures blocked the
    property of businesses in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; charged
    owners or operators of property blocked under Executive Orders Nos.
    12808, 12810, 12831, or 12846 all expenses incident to the blocking and
    maintenance of such property; ordered the detention; pending
    investigation, of all nonblocked vessels suspected of violating United
    Nations Security Council Resolutions 713, 757, 787, or 820 and the
    blocking of such conveyances or cargos if a violation is determined to
    have been committed; prohibited any vessel registered in the United
    States from entering the territorial waters of the Federal Republic of
    Yugoslavia; and prohibited United States persons from engaging in any
    dealings relating to the shipment of goods to, from, or through the
    United Nations Protected Areas in the Republic of Croatia and areas in
    the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the control of Bosnian Serb
    forces.
        On September 23, 1994, the United Nations Security Council adopted
    Resolution 942, which requires the imposition of additional measures on
    the areas of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the control of
    the Bosnian Serb forces due to their refusal to accept the proposed
    territorial settlement of the conflict in the Republic of Bosnia and
    Herzegovina.
        On October 25, 1994, pursuant to the above authorities, I expanded
    the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order No.
    12808 to address the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national
    security, foreign policy and economy of the United States posed by the
    actions of the Bosnian Serb forces and the authorities in the areas of
    the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina under their control and imposed
    additional measures in those areas to conform to United Nations Security
    Council Resolution 942 (1994).
        The new Executive order:
        --blocks all property and interests in property of (and transactions
            with): (1) the Bosnian Serb forces and authorities in those
            areas of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the
            control of those forces; (2) any entity organized or located in
            the Bosnian Serb-controlled areas; (3) any entity, wherever
            organized or located, which is owned or controlled directly or
            indirectly by any person in, or resident in, the Bosnian Serb-
            controlled areas; or (4) any person acting for or on behalf of
            any person mentioned above;
        --prohibits the exportation or provision of services by United
            States persons to Bosnian Serb-controlled areas or to any person
            for the purposes of any business carried out in those areas;
        --prohibits vessels registered in the United States or owned or
            controlled by United States persons from entering the riverine
            ports of the Bosnian Serb-controlled areas; and
        --prohibits any transaction that evades or avoids or has the purpose
            of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate, any of the
            prohibitions of the order.
        In addition, this order authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, in
    consultation with the Secretary of State, to take such actions and to

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    employ all powers granted to me by the International Emergency Economic
    Powers Act and the United Nations Participation Act as may be necessary
    to carry out the purposes of the order, including the issuance of
    licenses authorizing transactions otherwise prohibited. The sanctions
    imposed in the order apply notwithstanding any preexisting contracts,
    international agreements, licenses or authorizations.
        The new Executive order is necessary to confirm our commitment to a
    negotiated settlement of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia that
    preserves the territorial integrity of all the states there within their
    internationally recognized borders; to respond to the continued refusal
    of the Bosnian Serb party to accept the proposed territorial settlement
    accepted by the other parties; and to implement mandatory United Nations
    Security Council measures imposed on the Bosnian Serbs under Chapter VII
    of the Charter of the United Nations in order to urge them to accept the
    proposed territorial settlement unconditionally and in full.
        The declaration of the national emergency made by Executive Order
    No. 12808 and the controls imposed under Executive Orders Nos. 12810,
    12831, and 12846, and any other provisions of those orders, to the
    extent that they are not modified by or inconsistent with this new
    order, remain in full force and are unaffected by this order.
        Sincerely,

                                                          William J. Clinton

    Note: Identical letters were sent to Thomas S. Foley, Speaker of the
    House of Representatives, and Albert Gore, Jr., President of the Senate.
    The Executive order and the related proclamation of October 25 on
    immigration measures with respect to U.N. Security Council Resolution
    942 are listed in Appendix D at the end of this volume.