[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 119 (Tuesday, June 24, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 26917-26918]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11684]
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Notice of June 20, 2025
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 the former Republic of Macedonia
(what is now the Republic of North Macedonia).
On June 8, 2021, the President 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.
On January 8, 2025, the President signed Executive
Order 14140, in view of events in the Western Balkans,
including continued attempts by individuals to
challenge the sovereignty and territorial integrity of
Western Balkans nations, to undermine post-war
agreements and institutions, to engage in significant
corruption that erodes the rule of law and trust in
democratic governance, and to evade United States
Government sanctions, and in order to take additional
steps with respect to the national emergency with
respect to the Western Balkans.
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,
which was expanded in scope in Executive Order 14033,
and under which additional steps were taken in
Executive Order 14140, must continue in effect beyond
June 26, 2025. Therefore, in accordance with section
202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C.
1622(d)), I am continuing for
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1 year the national emergency declared in Executive
Order 13219 with respect to the Western Balkans.
This notice shall be published in the Federal Register
and transmitted to the Congress.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 20, 2025.
[FR Doc. 2025-11684
Filed 6-23-25; 11:15 am]
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