[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 43 (Monday, October 31, 1994)]
[Pages 2154-2155]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6749--Immigration Measures With Respect to United Nations 
Security Council Resolution 942

October 25, 1994

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    In light of the actions of the Bosnian Serb forces and the 
authorities in the territory they control, including their refusal to 
accept the proposed territorial settlement of the conflict in the 
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and of United Nations Security 
Council Resolution 942 of September 23, 1994, I have determined that it 
is in the interests of the United States to restrict the entry to the 
United States of all aliens described in paragraph 14 of United Nations 
Security Council Resolution 942.
    Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United 
States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the 
Constitution and laws of the United States, 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 section 1 of this 
proclamation would, except as provided for in section 2 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 14 of United Nations Security 
Council Resolution 942 is hereby suspended. These aliens are: (a) 
members of the authorities, including legislative authorities, in those 
areas of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the control of 
Bosnian Serb forces; officers of the Bosnian Serb military and 
paramilitary forces; and those acting on behalf of such authorities or 
forces;
    (b) persons found, after September 23, 1994, to have provided 
financial, material, logistical, military, or other tangible support to 
Bosnian Serb forces in violation of relevant United Nations Security 
Council resolutions; and
    (c) persons in or resident in those areas of the Republic of Bosnia 
and Herzegovina under the control of Bosnian Serb forces found to have 
violated or contributed to the violation of the measures set out in 
United Nations Security Council Resolution 820 of April 17, 1993, and 
United Nations Security Council Resolution 942 of September 23, 1994.
    Sec. 2. Section 1 shall not apply with respect to any alien 
otherwise covered by section 1 where the entry of such alien is in the 
interests of the United States, including where such entry has been 
approved as prescribed by paragraph 14 of United Nations Security 
Council Resolution 942.
    Sec. 3. Aliens covered by sections 1 and 2 shall be identified 
pursuant to procedures established by the Secretary of State, as 
authorized in section 5 below.
    Sec. 4. This proclamation shall take effect at 11:59 p.m. eastern 
daylight time on October 25, 1994, 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. 5. The Secretary of State shall have responsibility to 
implement this proclamation pursuant to procedures that the Secretary 
may establish.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-fifth 
day of October, 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 nineteenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 4:58 p.m., October 25, 
1994]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on October 
27.

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