[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Pages 15632-15633]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




NOTICE STATING THAT THE EMERGENCY DECLARED WITH RESPECT TO THE WESTERN 
      BALKANS IS TO CONTINUE IN EFFECT BEYOND JUNE 26, 2003--PM 41

  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 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

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of the national emergency, acts obstructing implementation of the Ohrid 
Framework Agreement 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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