NOTICE
- - - - - - 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

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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

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14033, must continue in effect beyond June 26, 2024. 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.
This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and
transmitted to the Congress.

THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 13, 2024.
[FR Doc. 2024-13363 Filed: 6/13/2024 11:15 am; Publication Date: 6/14/2024]