Executive orders, proclamations, memoranda, determinations, and other instruments — filter by administration, type, and theme.
6 shown · Jul '95
President Clinton authorized up to $3 million in emergency military assistance from the Department of Defense to the United Nations to support the Rapid Reaction Force in Bosnia, citing an unforeseen emergency under Section 506(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act. The determination found that no other law, including the Arms Export Control Act, could meet this emergency requirement. The Secretary of State was directed to report to Congress and arrange Federal Register publication.
President Clinton established a three-member emergency board under the Railway Labor Act to investigate unresolved labor disputes between Metro North Commuter Railroad and twelve represented labor organizations. The board must receive final settlement offers within 30 days of its creation and submit a report selecting the most reasonable offer within 30 days thereafter, with mandatory status quo conditions maintained throughout the process.
This proclamation modifies the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) by restoring preferential tariff treatment for Thailand on specific HTS subheadings, suspending Maldives as a beneficiary developing country due to worker rights violations, and designating Moldova as a new beneficiary developing country. The changes involve technical modifications to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule with staggered effective dates.
President Clinton determined that Angola is eligible to receive U.S. defense articles and services under the Foreign Assistance Act and Arms Export Control Act, specifically to provide non-lethal demining equipment and support for post-civil war reconstruction and UN peacekeeping efforts. The determination cites Angola's strategic importance as a source of 7% of U.S. oil imports and the need to consolidate peace following the Lusaka Protocol cease-fire.
This executive order delegates presidential authority under a new statute (10 U.S.C. § 404) to the Secretary of Defense for providing foreign disaster assistance, establishing procedural controls requiring presidential direction or State Department concurrence, with limited emergency exceptions. It specifies coordination requirements with USAID and took effect immediately after midnight on July 15, 1995.
President Clinton suspended four statutory restrictions on U.S. relations with the Palestine Liberation Organization until August 15, 1995, certifying it was in the national interest and that the PLO continued to abide by its commitments under the Middle East Peace Facilitation Act of 1994.