[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 42 (Monday, October 25, 1993)]
[Pages 2103-2104]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12872--Blocking Property of Persons Obstructing 
Democratization in Haiti

 October 18, 1993

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the National 
Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, 
United States Code, and in order to take additional steps with respect 
to the grave events that have occurred in the Republic of Haiti to 
disrupt the legitimate exercise of power by the democratically elected 
government of that country and with respect to the national emergency 
described and declared in Executive Order No. 12775,
    I, William J. Clinton, President of the United States of America, 
hereby order:
    Section 1. Except to the extent provided in regulations, orders, 
directives, or licenses, which may hereafter be issued pursuant to this 
order, and notwithstanding the existence of any rights or obligations 
conferred or imposed by any international agreement or any contract 
entered into or any license or permit granted before the effective date 
of this order, all property and interests in property of persons:
    (a) Who have contributed to the obstruction of the implementation of 
the United Nations Security Council Resolutions 841 and 873, the 
Governors Island Agreement of July 3, 1993, or the activities of the 
United Nations Mission in Haiti;
    (b) Who have perpetuated or contributed to the violence in Haiti; or
    (c) Who have materially or financially supported any of the 
foregoing, that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the 
United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or 
control of United States persons, including their overseas branches, are 
blocked.
    Sec. 2. Any transaction subject to U.S. jurisdiction that evades or 
avoids, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to 
violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in this order, or in 
Executive Orders Nos. 12775, 12779, or 12853, is prohibited, 
notwithstanding the existence of any rights or obligations conferred or 
imposed by any international agreement or any contract entered into or 
any license or permit granted before the effective date of this order, 
except to the extent provided in regulations, orders, directives, or 
licenses issued pursuant to the relevant Executive order and in effect 
on the effective date of this order.
    Sec. 3. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including 
the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers 
granted to me by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as may 
be necessary to carry out the purpose of this order. The Secretary of 
the Treasury may redelegate any of these functions to other officers and 
agencies of the United States Government, all agencies of which are 
hereby directed to take all appropriate measures within their authority 
to carry out the provisions of this order, including suspension or 
termination of licenses or other authorizations in effect as of the date 
of this order.
    Sec. 4. Nothing contained in this order shall create any right or 
benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable by any party against the 
United States, its agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or 
employees, or any other person.
    Sec. 5. (a) This order shall take effect at 11:59 p.m., eastern 
daylight time on October 18, 1993.
    (b) This order shall be transmitted to the Congress and published in 
the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
October 18, 1993.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 4:26 p.m., October 18, 
1993]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
October 20.

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