[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 26 (Monday, June 28, 2004)]
[Pages 1150-1151]
[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 24, 2004

    On June 26, 2001, by Executive Order 13219, I declared a national 
emergency with

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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 also became 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, 2004. 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 24, 2004.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 2:40 p.m., June 24, 
2004]

Note: This notice was published in the Federal Register on June 25.