[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 16 (Wednesday, January 25, 1995)]
[Presidential Documents]
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Part IX
The President
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Executive Order 12947--Prohibiting Transactions With Terrorists Who
Threaten To Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process
                        Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 16 / Wednesday, January 25, 1995 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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                Executive Order 12947 of January 23, 1995
Prohibiting Transactions With Terrorists Who
                Threaten To Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process
                 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.) (IEEPA), the
                National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and
                section 301 of title 3, United States Code,
                I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the United States
                of America, find that grave acts of violence committed
                by foreign terrorists that disrupt the Middle East
                peace process constitute an unusual and extraordinary
                threat to the national security, foreign policy, and
                economy of the United States, and hereby declare a
                national emergency to deal with that threat.
                I hereby order:
                 Section 1. Except to the extent provided in section
                203(b)(3) and (4) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(3) and
                (4)) and in regulations, orders, directives, or
                licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and
                notwithstanding any contract entered into or any
                license or permit granted prior to the effective date:
                (a) all property and interests in property of:
                (i) the persons listed in the Annex to this order;
                (ii) foreign persons designated by the Secretary of
                State, in coordination with the Secretary of the
                Treasury and the Attorney General, because they are
                found:
                (A) to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of
                committing, acts of violence that have the purpose or
                effect of disrupting the Middle East peace process, or
                (B) to assist in, sponsor, or provide financial,
                material, or technological support for, or services in
                support of, such acts of violence; and
                (iii) persons determined by the Secretary of the
                Treasury, in coordination with the Secretary of State
                and the Attorney General, to be owned or controlled by,
                or to act for or on behalf of, any of the foregoing
                persons, that are in the United States, that hereafter
                come within the United States, or that hereafter come
                within the possession or control of United States
                persons, are blocked;
                    (b) any transaction or dealing by United States
                persons or within the United States in property or
                interests in property of the persons designated in or
                pursuant to this order is prohibited, including the
                making or receiving of any contribution of funds,
                goods, or services to or for the benefit of such
                persons;
                    (c) any transaction by any United States person or
                within the United States 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, is prohibited.
                Sec. 2. For the purposes of this order: (a) the term
                ``person'' means an individual or entity;
                    (b) the term ``entity'' means a partnership,
                association, corporation, or other organization, group,
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                    (c) the term ``United States person'' means any
                United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity
                organized under the laws of the United States
                (including foreign branches), or any person in the
                United States; and
                    (d) the term ``foreign person'' means any citizen
                or national of a foreign state (including any such
                individual who is also a citizen or national of the
                United States) or any entity not organized solely under
                the laws of the United States or existing solely in the
                United States, but does not include a foreign state.
                Sec. 3. I hereby determine that the making of donations
                of the type specified in section 203(b)(2)(A) of IEEPA
                (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)(A)) by United States persons to
                persons designated in or pursuant to this order would
                seriously impair my ability to deal with the national
                emergency declared in this order, and hereby prohibit
                such donations as provided by section 1 of this order.
                 Sec. 4. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury, in
                consultation with the Secretary of State and, as
                appropriate, the Attorney General, is hereby authorized
                to take such actions, including the promulgation of
                rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted
                to me by IEEPA 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.
                    (b) Any investigation emanating from a possible
                violation of this order, or of any license, order, or
                regulation issued pursuant to this order, shall first
                be coordinated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation
                (FBI), and any matter involving evidence of a criminal
                violation shall be referred to the FBI for further
                investigation. The FBI shall timely notify the
                Department of the Treasury of any action it takes on
                such referrals.
                 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 is effective at 12:01 a.m.,
                eastern standard time on January 24, 1995.
                    (b) This order shall be transmitted to the Congress
                and published in the Federal Register.
                    (Presidential Sig.)>
                THE WHITE HOUSE,
                    January 23, 1995.
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