[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 3, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 3CFR7524]
Proc. 7524
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Proclamation 7524 of February 22, 2002
Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Persons Responsible
for Actions That Threaten Zimbabwe's Democratic Institutions and Transition
to a Multi-Party Democracy
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
In light of the political and humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe
and the continued failure of President Robert Mugabe,
Zimbabwean government officials, and others to support the
rule of law, and given the importance to the United States of
fostering democratic institutions in Zimbabwe, I have
determined that it is in the interest of the United States to
take all available measures to restrict the international
travel and to suspend the entry into the United States, as
immigrants or nonimmigrants, of senior members of the
government of Robert Mugabe and others detailed below who
formulate, implement, or benefit from policies that undermine
or injure Zimbabwe's democratic institutions or impede the
transition to a multi-party democracy.
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, 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:
etion 1. The entry into the United
States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of the following
persons is hereby suspended:
(a) Senior members of the government of Robert Mugabe and
other Zimbabwe nationals who formulate, implement, or benefit
from policies that undermine or injure Zimbabwe's democratic
institutions or impede the transition to a multi-party
democracy;
(b) Persons who through their business dealings with Zimbabwe
government officials derive significant financial benefit from
policies that undermine or injure Zimbabwe's democratic
institutions or impede the transition to a multi-party
democracy; and
(c) The spouses of persons described in paragraphs (a) and
(b), above.
e. 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.
e. 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.
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e. 4. Nothing in this proclamation shall
be construed to derogate from United States Government
obligations under applicable international agreements.
e. 5. The Secretary of State shall have
responsibility for implementing this proclamation pursuant to
such procedures as the Secretary may establish.
e. 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. Any such
termination shall become effective upon publication in the
Federal eister.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-
second day of February, in the year of our Lord two thousand
two, and of the Independence of the United States of America
the two hundred and twenty-sixth.
GEORGE W. BUSH