[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 93 (Monday, June 23, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H5668]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  CONTINUATION OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO WESTERN BALKANS--
  MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 108-87)

  The SPEAKER pro tempore laid before the House the following message 
from the President of the United States; which was read and, together 
with the accompanying papers, without objection, referred to the 
Committee on International Relations and ordered to be printed:

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, 
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. Consistent with this provision, I have sent the 
enclosed notice, stating that the Western Balkans emergency is to 
continue in effect beyond June 26, 2003, to the Federal Register for 
publication. The most recent notice continuing this emergency was 
published in the Federal Register on June 25, 2002, 67 Fed. Reg. 42703.
  The crisis constituted by the actions of persons engaged in, or 
assisting, sponsoring, or supporting, (i) extremist violence in the 
former Yugoslav Republic of 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, that led to the declaration of a national 
emergency on June 26, 2001, has not been resolved. Subsequent to the 
declaration of the national emergency, acts obstructing implementation 
of the Ohrid Framework Agreemenet of 2001 in the former Yugoslav 
Republic of Macedonia, have also become a concern. All of these actions 
are hostile to U.S. interests and pose a continuing unusual and 
extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the 
United States. For these reasons, I have determined that it is 
necessary to continue the national emergency declared with respect to 
the Western Balkans and maintain in force the comprehensive sanctions 
to respond to this threat.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, June 20, 2003.

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