[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 25 (Monday, June 27, 2005)]
[Page 1062]
[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 23, 2005

    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 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 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, 2005. 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 23, 2005.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 1:12 p.m., June 23, 
2005]

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