    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 42, Number 25 (Monday, June 26, 2006)]
    [Pages 1213-1214]
    [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 22, 2006

        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 the 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, 2006. 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.

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        This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and
    transmitted to the Congress.
                                                    George W. Bush
     The White House,
     June 22, 2006.

     [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:15 a.m., June 22,
    2006]

    Note: This notice was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on
    June 23, and it was published in the Federal Register on June 23.