[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 23 (Monday, June 13, 1994)]
[Page 1264]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Haiti

June 10, 1994

Memorandum for the Secretary of Transportation

Subject: Scheduled Air Service Ban

    In furtherance of the international effort to remove the de facto 
regime in Haiti and to restore the democratically elected Aristide 
government, I have taken certain steps in the Executive order that I 
issued today.
    In addition, I have determined that it is in the essential foreign 
policy interests of the United States that additional action beyond that 
in Executive Order No. 12914 of May 7, 1994, be taken regarding 
transportation by air to Haiti. I have determined that, with respect to 
regularly scheduled commercial passenger flights of U.S. and Haitian air 
carriers, and except to the extent provided in regulations, orders, 
directives, authorizations, or licenses that may be issued by the 
Department of the Treasury in consultation with the Departments of State 
and Transportation, the following is prohibited: 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.
    The Department of Transportation should take appropriate action to 
implement this decision. That action should be effective as of 11:59 
p.m., eastern daylight time on June 24, 1994, and these measures should 
remain in effect until further notification.
                                            William J. Clinton