[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 119 (Thursday, June 22, 2023)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 40683-40684]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-13424]


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                Notice of June 20, 2023

                
Continuation of the National Emergency With 
                Respect to the Western Balkans

                On June 26, 2001, by Executive Order 13219, the 
                President declared a national emergency with respect to 
                the Western Balkans pursuant to the International 
                Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) 
                to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to 
                the national security and foreign policy of the United 
                States constituted by the actions of persons engaged 
                in, or assisting, sponsoring, or supporting, (i) 
                extremist violence in the former Republic of Macedonia 
                (what is now the Republic of North 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. The President 
                subsequently amended that order in Executive Order 
                13304 of May 28, 2003, to take additional steps with 
                respect to certain actions that obstruct implementation 
                of, among other things, the Ohrid Framework Agreement 
                of 2001 relating to Macedonia (what is now the Republic 
                of North Macedonia).

                On June 8, 2021, I signed Executive Order 14033, which 
                expanded the scope of the national emergency declared 
                in Executive Order 13219, as amended, finding that the 
                situation in the territory of the former Socialist 
                Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of 
                Albania (the Western Balkans), over the past two 
                decades, including the undermining of post-war 
                agreements and institutions following the breakup of 
                the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as 
                well as widespread corruption within various 
                governments and institutions in the Western Balkans, 
                stymies progress toward effective and democratic 
                governance and full integration into transatlantic 
                institutions, and thereby constitutes an unusual and 
                extraordinary threat to the national security and 
                foreign policy of the United States.

                The actions of persons threatening the peace and 
                international stabilization efforts in the Western 
                Balkans, including acts of extremist violence and 
                obstructionist activity, and the situation in the 
                Western Balkans, which stymies progress toward 
                effective and democratic governance and full 
                integration into transatlantic institutions, continue 
                to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the 
                national security and foreign policy of the United 
                States. For this reason, the national emergency 
                declared in Executive Order 13219, under which 
                additional steps were taken in Executive Order 13304, 
                and which was expanded in scope in Executive Order 
                14033, must continue in effect beyond June 26, 2023. 
                Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the 
                National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am 
                continuing for 1 year the national emergency declared 
                in Executive Order 13219 with respect to the Western 
                Balkans.

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                This notice shall be published in the Federal Register 
                and transmitted to the Congress.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    June 20, 2023.

[FR Doc. 2023-13424
Filed 6-21-23; 8:45 am]
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