[House Document 118-48]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]




118th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - House Document 118-48


 
  CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO THE WESTERN 
                                BALKANS

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                                MESSAGE


                                  from


                     THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES


                              transmitting


 NOTIFICATION THAT THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO THE WESTERN 
    BALKANS DECLARED IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 13219 OF JUNE 26, 2001, AS 
MODIFIED, IS TO CONTINUE IN EFFECT BEYOND JUNE 26, 2023, PURSUANT TO 50 
    U.S.C. 1622(d); PUBLIC LAW 94-412, SEC. 202(d); (90 STAT. 1257)








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    June 21, 2023.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the 
         Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed 
         
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To the Congress of the United States:
    Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 
1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination of a national 
emergency unless, within 90 days prior to the anniversary date 
of its declaration, the President publishes in the Federal 
Register and transmits to the Congress a notice stating that 
the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary 
date. In accordance with this provision, I have sent to the 
Federal Register for publication the enclosed notice stating 
that the national emergency with respect to the Western Balkans 
that was declared in Executive Order 13219 of June 26, 2001, 
under which additional steps were taken in Executive Order 
13304 of May 28, 2003, and which was expanded in scope in 
Executive Order 14033 of June 8, 2021, is to continue in effect 
beyond June 26, 2023.
    The acts of extremist violence and obstructionist activity, 
and the situation in the Western Balkans, which stymies 
progress toward effective and democratic governance and full 
integration into transatlantic institutions, outlined in these 
Executive Orders, continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary 
threat to the national security and foreign policy of the 
United States. Therefore, I have determined that it is 
necessary to continue the national emergency declared in 
Executive Order 13219 with respect to the Western Balkans.

                                               Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
    The White House, June 20, 2023.
















                                 Notice

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  Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Western 
                                Balkans

    On June 26, 2001, by Executive Order 13219, the President 
declared a national emergency with respect to the Western 
Balkans pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers 
Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to deal with the unusual and 
extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign 
policy of the United States constituted by the actions of 
persons engaged in, or assisting, sponsoring, or supporting, 
(i) extremist violence in the former Republic of Macedonia 
(what is now the Republic of North Macedonia) and elsewhere in 
the Western Balkans region, or (ii) acts obstructing 
implementation of the Dayton Accords in Bosnia or United 
Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 of June 10, 1999, in 
Kosovo. The President subsequently amended that order in 
Executive Order 13304 of May 28, 2003, to take additional steps 
with respect to certain actions that obstruct implementation 
of, among other things, the Ohrid Framework Agreement of 2001 
relating to Macedonia (what is now the Republic of North 
Macedonia).
    On June 8, 2021, I signed Executive Order 14033, which 
expanded the scope of the national emergency declared in 
Executive Order 13219, as amended, finding that the situation 
in the territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of 
Yugoslavia and the Republic of Albania (the Western Balkans), 
over the past two decades, including the undermining of post-
war agreements and institutions following the breakup of the 
former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as well as 
widespread corruption within various governments and 
institutions in the Western Balkans, stymies progress toward 
effective and democratic governance and full integration into 
transatlantic institutions, and thereby constitutes an unusual 
and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign 
policy of the United States.
    The actions of persons threatening the peace and 
international stabilization efforts in the Western Balkans, 
including acts of extremist violence and obstructionist 
activity, and the situation in the Western Balkans, which 
stymies progress toward effective and democratic governance and 
full integration into transatlantic institutions, continue to 
pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national 
security and foreign policy of the United States. For this 
reason, the national emergency declared in Executive Order 
13219, under which additional steps were taken in Executive 
Order 13304, and which was expanded in scope in Executive Order 
14033, must continue in effect beyond June 26, 2023. Therefore, 
in accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies 
Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the 
national emergency declared in Executive Order 13219 with 
respect to the Western Balkans.
    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.

                                               Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
    The White House, June 20, 2023.

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