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Notice: Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to the Western
Balkans
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For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary June 24, 2008

Notice: Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to the Western
Balkans

ÿÿWhite House News


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. I
subsequently amended that order in Executive Order 13304 of May 28, 2003.

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, 2008. 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, 2008.

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