[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 15 (Monday, April 19, 1999)]
[Pages 639-640]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

<R04>
Executive Order 13119--Designation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 
(Serbia/Montenegro), Albania, the Airspace Above, and Adjacent Waters as 
a Combat Zone

April 13, 1999

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me as President by the 
Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including section 
112 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 112), I designate, 
for the purposes of that section, the following locations, including the 
airspace above such locations, as an area in which Armed Forces of the 
United States are and have been engaged in combat:
    -- The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

       (Serbia/Montenegro);
    -- Albania;
    -- the Adriatic Sea;
    -- the Ionian Sea north of the 39th par-

       allel.
    For the purposes of this order, I designate March 24, 1999, as the 
date of the commencement of combatant activities in such zone.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
April 13, 1999.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., April 15, 
1999]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
April 16.

[[Page 640]]