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Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 115 / Wednesday, June 15, 2022 / Presidential Documents 36051 

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 postwar 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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36052 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 115 / Wednesday, June 15, 2022 / Presidential Documents 

This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to 

the Congress. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

June 13, 2022. [FR Doc. 2022–13036 

Filed 6–14–22; 8:45 am] 

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