For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
June 24, 2002
Continuation of Emergency
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. Because
the actions of these persons, which threaten 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 to deal with that
emergency must continue in effect beyond June 26, 2002. 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 21, 2002.
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