[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 85 (Tuesday, June 8, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H4228-H4229]
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. 
                                111-118)

  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, referred to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs 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 beyond the anniversary 
date. In accordance with this provision, I have sent to the Federal 
Register for publication the enclosed notice stating that the Western 
Balkans emergency is to continue in effect beyond June 26, 2010.
  The crisis constituted by the actions of the 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, 
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 of June 10, 1999, in 
Kosovo, or the Ohrid Framework Agreement of 2001 in Macedonia, that led 
to the declaration of a national emergency on June 26, 2001, in 
Executive Order 13219, and to amendment of that order in Executive 
Order 13304 of

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May 28, 2003, has not been resolved. 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 sanctions to respond to 
this threat.
                                                        Barack Obama.  
The White House, June 8, 2010.

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