Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to Haiti

Executive Order 12914 of May 7, 1994

Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to
Haiti

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including the International Emergency Economic
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the National
Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), section 5 of
the United Nations Participation Act of 1945, as
amended (22 U.S.C. 287c), and section 301 of title 3,
United States Code, in view of United Nations Security
Council Resolution 917 of May 6, 1994, and in order to
take additional steps with respect to the actions and
policies of the de facto regime in Haiti and the
national emergency described and declared in Executive
Order No. 12775, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Except to the extent provided in
regulations, orders, directives, or licenses, which may
hereafter be issued pursuant to this order, and
notwithstanding the existence of any rights or
obligations conferred or imposed by any international
agreement or any contract entered into or any license
or permit granted before the effective date of this
order, all funds and financial resources of:

    (a) all officers of the Haitian military, including
the police, and their immediate families;
    (b) the major participants in the coup d'etat in
Haiti of 1991 and in the illegal governments since the
coup d'etat, and their immediate families; and
    (c) those employed by or acting on behalf of the
Haitian military, and their immediate families; that
are or hereafter come within the United States, or that
are or hereafter come within the possession or control
of United States persons, including their overseas
branches, are blocked.

Sec. 2. The following are prohibited, notwithstanding
the existence of any rights or obligations conferred or
imposed by any international agreement or any contract
entered into or any license or permit granted before
the effective date of this order, except to the extent
provided in regulations, orders, directives,
authorizations, or licenses that may hereafter be
issued pursuant to this order: (a) the granting of
permission to any aircraft to take off from, land in,
or overfly the territory of the United States, if the
aircraft, as part of the same flight or as a
continuation of that flight, is destined to land in or
has taken off from the territory of Haiti, with the
exception of regularly scheduled commercial passenger
flights; (b) any transaction by any United States
person that evades or avoids, or has the purpose of
evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate, any of the
prohibitions set forth in this order.

Sec. 3. The definitions contained in section 3 of
Executive Order No. 12779 apply to the terms used in
this order.

Sec. 4. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation
with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to
take such actions, including the promulgation of rules
and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to me
by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and
the United Nations Participation Act, as may be
necessary to carry out the purposes of this order. The
Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of these
functions to other officers and agencies of the United
States Government. All agencies of the United States
Government are hereby directed to take all appropriate
measures within their authority to carry out the
provisions of this order, including suspension or
termination of licenses or other authorizations in
effect as of the effective date of this order.

Sec. 5. Nothing contained in this order shall create
any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable by any party against the United States, its
agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or
employees, or any other person.

Sec. 6.

    (a) This order shall take effect at 11:59 p.m.,
eastern daylight time on May 8, 1994.
    (b) This order shall be transmitted to the Congress
and published in the Federal Register.

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THE WHITE HOUSE,

    May 7, 1994.