[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 26 (Monday, July 1, 2002)]
[Pages 1079-1080]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Notice--Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the 
Western Balkans

June 21, 2002

    On June 26, 2001, by Executive Order 13219, I declared a national 
emergency with respect to the Western Balkans pursuant to the 
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) 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 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. Because 
the actions of these persons, which threaten the peace and international 
stabilization efforts in the Western Balkans, continue to pose an 
unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign 
policy of the United States, the national emergency declared on June 26, 
2001, and the measures adopted on that date to deal with that emergency 
must continue in effect beyond June 26, 2002. 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 with respect to the 
Western Balkans.
    This Notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 June 21, 2002.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., June 24, 
2002]

Note: This notice was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
June 24, and it was published in the Federal Register on June 25.

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