    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 19 (Monday, May 16, 1994)]
    [Pages 1014-1015]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Executive Order 12914--Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to
    Haiti

    May 7, 1994

         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.), section 5 of the United
    Nations Participation Act of 1945, as amended (22 U.S.C. 287c), and
    section 301 of title 3, United States Code, in view of United Nations
    Security Council Resolution 917 of May 6, 1994, and in order to take
    additional steps with respect to the actions and policies of the de
    facto regime in Haiti and the national emergency described and declared
    in Executive Order No. 12775, it is hereby ordered as follows:
        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 funds and financial resources of: (a) all officers of
    the Haitian military, including the police, and their immediate
    families;
        (b) the major participants in the coup d'etat in Haiti of 1991 and
    in the illegal governments since the coup d'etat, and their immediate
    families; and
        (c) those employed by or acting on behalf of the Haitian military,
    and their immediate families; that are or 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. The following are 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, authorizations, or licenses that may
    hereafter be issued pursuant to this order: (a) 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, with the exception of
    regularly scheduled commercial passenger flights; (b) any transaction by
    any United States person 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.

        Sec. 3. The definitions contained in section 3 of Executive Order
    No. 12779 apply to the terms used in this order.

        Sec. 4. 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 and the
    United Nations Participation Act, as may be necessary to carry out the
    purposes 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 the United States Government 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
    effective date of this order.

        Sec. 5. 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.

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        Sec. 6.
        (a) This order shall take effect at 11:59 p.m., eastern daylight
    time on May 8, 1994.
        (b) This order shall be transmitted to the Congress and published in
    the Federal Register.
                                                William J. Clinton
    The White House,
    May 7, 1994.

    [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:21 p.m., May 9, 1994]

    Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press
    Secretary on May 9, and it was published in the Federal Register on May
    10.