[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 19 (Monday, May 16, 1994)]
[Pages 1015-1016]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6685--Suspension of Entry of Aliens Whose Entry Is Barred 
Under United Nations Security Council Resolution 917 or Who Formulate, 
Implement, or Benefit From Policies That Are Impeding the Negotiations 
Seeking the Return to Constitutional Rule in Haiti

May 7, 1994

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    In light of the political crisis in Haiti resulting from the 
expulsion from Haiti of President Aristide and the constitutional 
government, United Nations Security Council Resolution 917, and the 
overriding interest of the United States in the restoration of democracy 
to Haiti, I have determined that it is in the interests of the United 
States to restrict the entry to the United States of: (1) all aliens 
described in paragraph 3 of United Nations Security Council Resolution 
917; and (2) all other aliens who formulate, implement, or benefit from 
policies that impede the progress of the negotiations designed to 
restore constitutional government to Haiti and their immediate families.
    Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, by the powers vested in me as 
President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, 
including sections 212(f) and 215 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
of 1952, as amended (8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185), and section 301 of 
title 3, United States Code, hereby find that the unrestricted immigrant 
and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of aliens described in 
sections 1 and 2 of this proclamation would, except as provided for in 
sections 3 and 4 of this proclamation, be detrimental to the interests 
of the United States. I do therefore proclaim that:
    Section 1. The immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United 
States of aliens described in paragraph 3 of United Nations Security 
Council Resolution 917 is hereby suspended. These aliens are: (a) all 
officers of the Haitian military, including the police, and their 
immediate families;
    (b) the major participants in the coup d'etat 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.
    Sec. 2. The immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States 
of aliens who are not covered by section 1, but who nonetheless 
formulate, implement, or benefit from policies that impede the progress 
of the negotiations designed to restore constitutional government to 
Haiti, and their immediate families, is hereby suspended.
    Sec. 3. Section 1 shall not apply with respect to any alien 
otherwise covered by section 1 where the entry of such alien has been 
approved as prescribed by paragraph 3 of United Nations Security Council 
Resolution 917.
    Sec. 4. Section 2 shall not apply with respect to any alien 
otherwise covered by section 2 where the entry of such alien would not 
be contrary to the interests of the United States.
    Sec. 5. Aliens covered by sections 1 through 4 shall be identified 
pursuant to procedures established by the Secretary of State, as 
authorized in section 8 below.
    Sec. 6. Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed to derogate 
from United States Government obligations under applicable international 
agreements.
    Sec. 7. This proclamation shall take effect at 11:59 p.m., eastern 
daylight time on May 8, 1994, and shall remain in effect until such

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time as the Secretary of State determines that it is no longer necessary 
and should be terminated.
    Sec. 8. The Secretary of State shall have responsibility to 
implement this proclamation pursuant to procedures the Secretary may 
establish.
    Sec. 9. Proclamation No. 6569 of June 3, 1993, is hereby revoked.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of 
May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-four, and of 
the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 
eighteenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:09 p.m., May 9, 1994]

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