Beden continues the Executive Order: Balkans pose threat to US national security

This executive order was originally signed on June 26, 2001. The order speaks of the US security threat, caused by the actions of those acting by obstructing UN Resolution 1244 of June 10, 1999, in Kosovo.

The order includes those involved in either assisting, sponsoring or supporting, extremist violence in the Republic of Northern Macedonia (so-called Republic of Macedonia) and elsewhere in the Western Balkans region, or against persons acting by obstructing the implementation of the Dayton Agreement in Bosnia.

The president later changed that order to the May 28th 2003, Executive Order to take additional steps in connection with certain actions that hinder implementation, among other things, the 2001 Ohrid Framework Agreement regarding Macedonia (what is now Republic of Northern Macedonia).

“on June 8th 2021, I signed the Executive Order of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Albania (Western Balkans), which expanded the area of emergency national order declared 13219, confirming that the situation in the territory of the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Albania (Western Balkans) over the past two decades, including the minim of agreements and post-war institutions following the breakup of the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, as well as widespread corruption within different governments and institutions in the Western Balkans, hindering effective progress towards democratic and full-fledged integration into Atlantic institutions, and thus poses an unusual threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, the United States's Scheffer has been told by BiH.

The American president, arguing on the continuation of the Executive Order for National Emergency in the Western Balkans, said that <x0 actions of people threatening peace and international stabilisation efforts in the Western Balkans, including acts of extremist violence and stumbling activity, and the situation in the Western Balkans, which hampers progress towards effective and democratic governance and full integration into transatlantic institutions, continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to national security and foreign policy of the United States<x1.

For this reason, the national emergency declared at Executive Order 13219, under which additional steps were taken in Executive Order 13304, and expanded to Executive Command 14033, should continue to remain in force after June 26, 2023. Therefore, in line with Article 202'ed) of the National Emergency Act (50 U.S.C. 1622)), I am continuing for a year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13219 concerning the Western Balkans”, U.S. President Joe Biden. /Klankosova. tv