    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2004, Book I)]
    [June 24, 2004]
    [Pages 1128-1129]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Message to the Congress on Continuation of the National Emergency With
    Respect to the Western Balkans
    June 24, 2004

    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, stating that the Western Balkans emergency is to
    continue in effect beyond June 26, 2004, to the Federal Register for
    publication. The most recent notice continuing this emergency was
    published in the Federal Register on June 24, 2003, 68 Fed. Reg. 37389.
        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

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    June 26, 2001, has not been resolved. Subsequent to the declaration 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 24, 2004.

    Note: The notice is listed in Appendix D at the end of this volume.