118 STAT. 4105 PROCLAMATION 7757—FEB. 26, 2004 WHEREAS a critical initiative by the United States to advance these U.S. objectives is to deny resources to the repressive Cuban govern- ment, resources that may be used by that government to support ter- rorist activities and carry out excessive use of force against innocent victims, including U.S. citizens; WHEREAS the unauthorized entry of U.S.-registered vessels into Cuban territorial waters is detrimental to the foreign policy of the United States, which is to deny monetary and material support to the repressive Cuban government, and, therefore, such unauthorized en- tries threaten to disturb the international relations of the United States by facilitating the Cuban government’s support of terrorism, use of ex- cessive force, and continued existence; WHEREAS the Cuban government has over the course of its 45-year ex- istence repeatedly used violence and the threat of violence to under- mine U.S. policy interests. This same regime continues in power today, and has since 1959 maintained a pattern of hostile actions contrary to U.S. policy interests. Among other things, the Cuban government estab- lished a military alliance with the Soviet Union, and invited Soviet forces to install nuclear missiles in Cuba capable of attacking the United States, and encouraged Soviet authorities to use those weapons against the United States; it engaged in military adventurism in Africa; and it helped to form and provide material and political support to ter- rorist organizations that sought the violent overthrow of democratically elected governments in Central America and elsewhere in the hemi- sphere allied with the United States, thereby causing repeated disturb- ances of U.S. international relations; WHEREAS the Cuban government has recently and over the last year taken a series of steps to destabilize relations with the United States, including threatening to abrogate the Migration Accords with the United States and to close the U.S. Interests Section, and Cuba’s most senior officials repeatedly asserting that the United States intended to invade Cuba, despite explicit denials from the U.S. Secretaries of State and Defense that such action is planned, thereby causing a sudden and worsening disturbance of U.S. international relations; WHEREAS U.S. concerns about these unforeseen Cuban government actions that threaten to disturb international relations were sufficiently grave that on May 8, 2003, the United States warned the Cuban govern- ment that political manipulations that resulted in a mass migration would be viewed as a ‘‘hostile act;’’; NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of title II of Public Law 65–24, ch. 30, June 15, 1917, as amended (50 U.S.C. 191), sections 201 and 301 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, in order to expand the scope of the national emergency declared in Proc- lamation 6867 of March 1, 1996, and to secure the observance of the rights and obligations of the United States, hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of Homeland Security (the ‘‘Secretary’’;) to make and issue such rules and regulations as the Secretary may find appropriate to regulate the anchorage and movement of vessels, and authorize and approve the Secretary’s issuance of such rules and regulations, as au- thorized by the Act of June 15, 1917. VerDate 11-MAY-2000 15:04 Nov 10, 2005 Jkt 029194 PO 00000 Frm 00071 Fmt 8087 Sfmt 8087 C:\STATUTES\2004\29194PT4.004 APPS10 PsN: 29194PT4
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