[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 25 (Monday, June 23, 2003)]
[Pages 790-791]
[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 20, 2003

    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. Subsequent 
to the declaration of the national emergency, the actions of persons 
obstructing implementation of the Ohrid Framework Agreement of 2001 in 
the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have also become a pressing 
concern. I amended Executive Order 13219 on May 28, 2003, in Executive 
Order 13304 to address this concern and to take additional steps with 
respect to the national emergency. Because the actions of persons 
threatening 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 and thereafter to deal with that emergency must continue in 
effect beyond June 26,

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2003. 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 20, 2003.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., June 23, 
2003]

Note: This notice will be published in the Federal Register on June 24.