Presidential Document2022-13036
Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Western Balkans
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Published
June 15, 2022
Signed
June 13, 2022
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Executive Office of the President
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 115 (Wednesday, June 15, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 36051-36052]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-13036]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 115 / Wednesday, June 15, 2022 /
Presidential Documents
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Notice of June 13, 2022
Continuation of the National Emergency With
Respect to the Western Balkans
On June 26, 2001, by Executive Order 13219, the
President declared a national emergency with respect to
the Western Balkans pursuant to the International
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)
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 Republic of Macedonia
(what is now the Republic of North 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. The President
subsequently amended that order in Executive Order
13304 of May 28, 2003, to take additional steps with
respect to certain actions that obstruct implementation
of, among other things, the Ohrid Framework Agreement
of 2001 relating to Macedonia (what is now the Republic
of North Macedonia).
On June 8, 2021, I signed Executive Order 14033, which
expanded the scope of the national emergency declared
in Executive Order 13219, as amended, finding that the
situation in the territory of the former Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of
Albania (the Western Balkans), over the past two
decades, including the undermining of post-war
agreements and institutions following the breakup of
the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as
well as widespread corruption within various
governments and institutions in the Western Balkans,
stymies progress toward effective and democratic
governance and full integration into transatlantic
institutions, and thereby constitutes an unusual and
extraordinary threat to the national security and
foreign policy of the United States.
The actions of persons threatening the peace and
international stabilization efforts in the Western
Balkans, including acts of extremist violence and
obstructionist activity, and the situation in the
Western Balkans, which stymies progress toward
effective and democratic governance and full
integration into transatlantic institutions, continue
to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the
national security and foreign policy of the United
States. For this reason, the national emergency
declared in Executive Order 13219, under which
additional steps were taken in Executive Order 13304,
and which was expanded in scope in Executive Order
14033, must continue in effect beyond June 26, 2022.
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 declared
in Executive Order 13219 with respect to the Western
Balkans.
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This notice shall be published in the Federal Register
and transmitted to the Congress.
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THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 13, 2022.
[FR Doc. 2022-13036
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