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US extends national emergency regarding Western Balkans

2025-06-24 15:51:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

US extends national emergency regarding Western Balkans

The United States has decided to extend the National Emergency regarding the Western Balkans by 1 year. The decision was signed by US President Donald Trump.

“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 USC 1701 et seq.) to address the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the actions of persons engaged in, or who aid, sponsor, or support, (i) extremist violence in the former Republic of Macedonia (now the Republic of North Macedonia) and elsewhere in the Western Balkan region, or (ii) acts that obstruct the 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 by Executive Order 13304 of May 28, 2003, to to take additional steps in relation to certain actions that impede the implementation of, inter alia, the 2001 Ohrid Framework Agreement with regard to the former Republic of Macedonia (now the Republic of North Macedonia).

On June 8, 2021, the President signed Executive Order 14033, which expanded the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13219, as amended, determining that the situation in the territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Albania (Western Balkans), over the past two decades, including the undermining of post-war agreements and institutions following the dissolution of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as well as widespread corruption within various governments and institutions in the Western Balkans, impedes progress toward effective and democratic governance and full integration into transatlantic institutions, and thus poses an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.

On January 8, 2025, the President signed Executive Order 14140, in light of events in the Western Balkans, including the continued efforts of individuals to challenge the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the nations of the Western Balkans, to undermine post-war agreements and institutions, to engage in significant corruption that erodes the rule of law and confidence in democratic governance, and to evade United States Government sanctions, and to take additional steps regarding the national emergency with respect to the Western Balkans.

The actions of individuals who threaten peace and international stabilization efforts in the Western Balkans, including acts of extremist violence and disruptive activity, and the situation in the Western Balkans, which impedes 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, as further implemented in Executive Order 13304, as further expanded in scope in Executive Order 14033, and as further implemented in Executive Order 14140, should continue in effect beyond June 26, 2025. Therefore, pursuant to section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am extending it for

1 year of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13219 regarding the Western Balkans.

"This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to Congress," the decision reads. /CNA

US extends national emergency regarding Western Balkans





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