[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 25 (Monday, June 28, 1993)]
[Pages 1149-1150]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6574--Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants 
of Persons Who Formulate or Implement Policies That Are Impeding the 
Transition to Democracy in Zaire or Who Benefit From Such Policies

 June 21, 1993

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    In light of the political and economic crisis in Zaire, I have 
determined that it is in the interests of the United States to restrict 
the entrance into the United States as immigrants and nonimmigrants of 
certain Zairian nationals who formulate or implement policies that 
impede Zaire's transition to democracy or who benefit from such 
policies, and the immediate families of such persons.
    Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, by the power vested in me as 
President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, 
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 section 2 or 3 of this 
proclamation, be detrimental to the interests of the United States. I, 
therefore, do proclaim that:
    Section 1. The entry into the United States as immigrants and 
nonimmigrants of persons who formulate, implement, or benefit from 
policies that impede Zaire's transition to democracy, and the immediate 
family members of such persons, is hereby suspended.
    Sec. 2. Section 1 shall not apply with respect to any person 
otherwise covered by section 1 where entry of such person would not be 
contrary to the interests of the United States.
    Sec. 3. Persons covered by sections 1 and 2 shall be identified 
pursuant to procedures established by the Secretary of State, as 
authorized in section 6 below.
    Sec. 4. Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed to derogate 
from United States Government obligations under applicable international 
agreements.
    Sec. 5. 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.
    Sec. 6. The Secretary of State shall have responsibility to 
implement this proclamation pursuant to procedures the Secretary may 
establish.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-first 
day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-three, 
and of the Independence of the

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United States of America the two hundred and seventeenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:50 a.m., June 22, 
1993]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on June 
23.