[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 85 (Thursday, June 23, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Page S7292]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 REPORT ON THE CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO 
THE EXTREMIST VIOLENCE IN MACEDONIA AND THE WESTERN BALKANS REGION--PM 
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  The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the following message 
from the President of the United States, together with an accompanying 
report; which was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs:

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 Reqister 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 the 
enclosed notice to the Federal Reqister for publication, stating that 
the Western Balkans emergency is to continue in effect beyond June 26, 
2005. The most recent notice continuing this emergency was published in 
the Federal Reqister on June 25, 2004, 69 FR 36005.
  The crisis constituted by the actions of persons engaged in, or 
assisting, sponsoring, or supporting (i) extremist violence in the 
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, I amended Executive Order 13219 in Executive Order 
13304 of May 28, 2003, to address acts obstructing implementation of 
the Ohrid Framework Agreement of 2001 in the Republic of Macedonia, 
which have also become a concern. The acts of extremist violence and 
obstructionist activity outlined in Executive Order 13219, as amended, 
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 23, 2005.

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