[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 17095-17096]
[From the U.S. 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. 
                                110-42)

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Sherman) 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 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 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, 
2007. The most recent notice continuing this emergency was published in 
the Federal Register on June 23, 2006, 71 FR 36183.
  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 and to amendment of that order in 
Executive Order 13304 of 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

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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, 2007.

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