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CLINTON PROCLAMATION AGAINST SIERRA LEONE JUNTA

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15 January 1998

TEXT: CLINTON PROCLAMATION AGAINST SIERRA LEONE JUNTA

(Suspends entry of junta and family members into U.S.) (510)

WASHINGTON -- President Clinton late January 14 signed a proclamation
suspending the entry into the United States "as immigrants and
non-immigrants of persons who are members of the military junta in
Sierra Leone and members of their families."

Clinton ordered the move, in furtherance of U.N. Security Council
Resolution 1132, because of the de facto ruling junta's refusal "to
permit the return to power of the democratically elected government"
in Sierra Leone and because "it is in the foreign policy interests" of
the United States.

(BEGIN TEXT)

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

January 14, 1998

SUSPENSION OF ENTRY AS IMMIGRANTS AND NONIMMIGRANTS OF PERSONS WHO ARE
MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY JUNTA IN SIERRA LEONE AND MEMBERS OF THEIR
FAMILIES

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

(END TEXT)


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