[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 3 (Monday, January 19, 1998)]
[Page 63]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7062--Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants 
of Persons Who Are Members of the Military Junta in Sierra Leone and 
Members of Their Families

January 14, 1998

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    In light of the refusal of the military junta in de facto control in 
Sierra Leone to permit the return to power of the democratically elected 
government of that country, and in furtherance of United Nations 
Security Council Resolution 1132 of October 8, 1997, I have determined 
that it is in the foreign policy interests of the United States to 
suspend the entry into the United States of aliens described in section 
1 of this proclamation.
    Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, by the power vested in me as 
President of the United States by the Constitution and the 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), hereby find that the entry into the United States of aliens 
described in section 1 of this proclamation, as immigrants or 
nonimmigrants 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 entry into the United States as immigrants and 
nonimmigrants of members of the military junta in Sierra Leone and 
members of their families, 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 not 
be contrary to the interests of the United States.
    Sec. 3. Persons covered by sections 1 and 2 shall be identified by 
the Secretary of State.
    Sec. 4. 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. 5. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to implement 
this proclamation pursuant to such procedures as the Secretary of State 
may establish.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day 
of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-eight, 
and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred 
and twenty-second.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:17 a.m., January 15, 
1998]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on January 
16.