US – President continues national emergency with respect to Western Balkans

On June 25, 2014, the Federal Register published the President’s Notice of June 23, 2014 – Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Western Balkans which continues for an additional year the national emergency originally declared on June 26, 2001 in Executive Order (E.O.) 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 extremist violence in the Republic of Macedonia and elsewhere in the Western Balkans region, or acts obstructing implementation of the Dayton Accords in Bosnia or United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 of June 10, 1999, relating to Kosovo. The President subsequently amended that order in E.O. 13304 of May 28, 2003, to take additional steps with respect to acts obstructing implementation of the Ohrid Framework Agreement relating to Macedonia.

The President found that 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. For this reason, he has continued for 1 year the national emergency declared on June 26, 2001, and the measures adopted on that date and thereafter to deal with that emergency.