[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 82 (Thursday, June 22, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H4496]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    CONTINUATION OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO THE WESTERN 
 BALKANS--MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 
                                109-117)

  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. In accordance with this provision, I have sent the 
enclosed notice to the Federal Register for publication, stating that 
the Western Balkans emergency is to continue in effect beyond June 26, 
2006. The most recent notice continuing this emergency was published in 
the Federal Register on June 24, 2005, 70 FR 36803.
  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, in Executive Order 13219 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 22, 2006.

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