[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 47 (Monday, November 25, 1996)]
[Pages 2425-2426]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6958--Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants 
of Persons Who Are Members or Officials of the Sudanese Government or 
Armed Forces

November 22, 1996

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    In light of the refusal of the Government of Sudan to comply with 
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1044 of January 31, 1996, and 
in furtherance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1054 of 
April 26, 1996, I have determined that it is in the foreign policy 
interests of the United States to restrict the entry into the United 
States of aliens described in paragraph 3 of United Nations Security 
Council Resolution 1054 and in section 1 of this proclamation.
    Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, by the power 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 persons 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 therefore, do proclaim that:
    Section 1. The entry into the United States as immigrants and 
nonimmigrants of members of the Government of Sudan, officials of that 
Government, and members of the Sudanese armed forces, is hereby 
suspended.
    Sec. 2. Section 1 shall not apply with respect to any person 
otherwise covered by section 1 where the entry of such person would

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not be contrary to the interests of the United States.
    Sec. 3. Persons covered by section 1 and 2 shall be identified by 
the Secretary of State.
    Sec. 4. Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed to restrict 
the entry of Sudanese officials coming to the United States on official 
business of the United Nations other than in a manner consistent with 
the obligations of the United States to the United Nations.
    Sec. 5. This proclamation is effective immediately 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. 6. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to implement 
this proclamation pursuant to such procedures as he may establish.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-second 
day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-
six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two 
hundred and twenty-first.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., November 25, 
1996]

Note: This proclamation will be published in the Federal Register on 
November 26.