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

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Message to the Congress on Continuation of the National Emergency With 
Respect to the Western Balkans

June 21, 2002

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 25, 2002, to the Federal Register for 
publication.
    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 June 26, 2001, has not been resolved. 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 21, 2002.

Note: This message was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
June 24.