[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 26 (Monday, July 2, 2001)]
[Pages 975-976]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7452--Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants 
of Persons Responsible for Actions That Threaten International 
Stabilization Efforts in the Western Balkans, and Persons Responsible 
for Wartime Atrocities in That Region

 June 26, 2001

 By the President of the United States

 of America

 A Proclamation

    The United States has a vital interest in assuring peace and 
stability in Europe. In the Western Balkans, the United States is 
engaged, together with North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allies, the 
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, United Nations 
missions, the European Union, and other international organizations in 
an effort to achieve peace, stability, reconciliation, and democratic 
development and to facilitate the region's integration into the European 
mainstream. The United States views full implementation of the Dayton 
Peace Accords in Bosnia and United Nations Security Council Resolution 
1244 in Kosovo as critical to these efforts.
    In furtherance of these objectives, the United States has provided 
military, diplomatic, financial, and logistical support to international 
institutions established in the region and to civil and security 
authorities. The United States has a direct and significant interest in 
the success of such initiatives and in the safety of personnel involved 
in them, including numerous United States military and Government 
officials.
    In light of these objectives, I have determined that it is in the 
interests of the United States to restrict the entry into the United 
States of persons responsible for actions that threaten international 
stabilization efforts in the Western Balkans region, and of persons 
responsible for wartime atrocities committed in that region since 1991.

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    Now, Therefore, I, George W. Bush, President of the United States of 
America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of 
the United States, including section 212(f) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act of 1952, as amended (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), 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 sections 2 and 3 of this proclamation, be detrimental to the 
interests of the United States. I therefore hereby proclaim that:
    Section 1. The immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United 
States of the following persons is hereby suspended:
    (a) Persons who, through violent or other acts: (i) seek to obstruct 
the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords (the ``Dayton 
Agreements'') or United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 of June 
10, 1999; (ii) seek to undermine the authority or security of the United 
Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, the international 
security presence in Kosovo known as the Kosovo Force, the Office of the 
High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the international 
security presence in Bosnia known as the Stabilization Force, the 
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International 
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, or other international 
organizations and entities present in the region pursuant to the Dayton 
Agreement or United Nations Security Council resolutions, including but 
not limited to Resolutions 827, 1031, and 1244; (iii) seek to intimidate 
or to prevent displaced persons or refugees from returning to their 
places of residence in any area or state of the Western Balkans region; 
or (iv) otherwise seek to undermine peace, stability, reconciliation, or 
democratic development in any area or state of the Western Balkans 
region.
    (b) Persons who are responsible for directing, planning, or carrying 
out wartime atrocities, including but not limited to acts in furtherance 
of ``ethnic cleansing,'' committed in any area or state of the Western 
Balkans region since 1991.
    Sec. 2. Section 1 of this proclamation shall not apply with respect 
to any person otherwise covered by section 1 where entry of such person 
would not be contrary to the interest of the United States.
    Sec. 3. Persons covered by sections 1 and 2 of this proclamation 
shall be identified by the Secretary of State or the Secretary's 
designee, in his or her sole discretion, pursuant to such procedures as 
the Secretary may establish under section 5 of this proclamation.
    Sec. 4. Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed to derogate 
from United States Government obligations under applicable international 
agreements.
    Sec. 5. The Secretary of State shall have responsibility for 
implementing this proclamation pursuant to such procedures as the 
Secretary may establish.
    Sec. 6. 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, either in whole or in 
part. The Secretary of State shall advise the Attorney General of such 
determination, which shall become effective upon publication in the 
Federal Register.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-sixth 
day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand one, and of the 
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-
fifth.
                                                George W. Bush

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:33 a.m., June 28, 
2001]

Note: This proclamation was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on June 27, and it was published in the Federal Register on 
June 29.