[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 26 (Monday, July 2, 2001)]
[Pages 976-978]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

<R04>
Executive Order 13219--Blocking Property of Persons Who Threaten 
International Stabilization Efforts in the Western Balkans

June 26, 2001

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including the International 
Emergency Economic Powers

[[Page 977]]

Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 
U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,
    I, George W. Bush, President of the United States of America, have 
determined that the actions of persons engaged in, or assisting, 
sponsoring, or supporting, (i) extremist violence in the former Yugoslav 
Republic of Macedonia, southern Serbia, the Federal Republic of 
Yugoslavia, 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, 
threaten the peace in or diminish the security and stability of those 
areas and the wider region, undermine the authority, efforts, and 
objectives of the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization 
(NATO), and other international organizations and entities present in 
those areas and the wider region, and endanger the safety of persons 
participating in or providing support to the activities of those 
organizations and entities, including United States military forces and 
Government officials. I find that such actions constitute an unusual and 
extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the 
United States, and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that 
threat. I hereby order:
    Section 1. (a) Except to the extent provided in section 203(b)(1), 
(3), and (4) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(1), (3), and (4)), the Trade 
Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 (title IX, Public 
Law 106-387), and in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that 
may hereafter be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any 
contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the 
effective date, all property and interests in property of:
    (i) the persons listed in the Annex to this order; and
    (ii) persons designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, in 
      consultation with the Secretary of State, because they are found:
    (A) to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, 
acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of threatening the 
peace in or diminishing the stability or security of any area or state 
in the Western Balkans region, undermining the authority, efforts, or 
objectives of international organizations or entities present in the 
region, or endangering the safety of persons participating in or 
providing support to the activities of those international organizations 
or entities, or,
    (B) to have actively obstructed, or to pose a significant risk of 
actively obstructing, implementation of the Dayton Accords in Bosnia or 
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 in Kosovo, or
    (C) materially to assist in, sponsor, or provide financial or 
technological support for, or goods or services in support of, such acts 
of violence or obstructionism, or
    (D) to be owned or controlled by, or acting or purporting to act 
directly or indirectly for or on behalf of, any of the foregoing 
persons, that are or hereafter come within the United States, or that 
are or hereafter come within the possession or control of United States 
persons, are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, 
withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in.
    (b) I hereby determine that the making of donations of the type 
specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by United 
States persons to persons designated in or pursuant to paragraph (a) of 
this section would seriously impair my ability to deal with the national 
emergency declared in this order. Accordingly, the blocking of property 
and interests in property pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section 
includes, but is not limited to, the prohibition of the making by a 
United States person of any such donation to any such designated person, 
except as otherwise authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury.
    (c) The blocking of property and interests in property pursuant to 
paragraph (a) of this section includes, but is not limited to, the 
prohibition of the making or receiving by a United States person of any 
contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services to or for the 
benefit of a person designated in or pursuant to paragraph (a) of this 
section.
    Sec. 2. Any transaction by a United States person that evades or 
avoids, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to

[[Page 978]]

violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited. 
Any conspiracy formed to violate the prohibitions of this order is 
prohibited.
    Sec. 3. For the purposes of this order:
    (a) The term ``person'' means an individual or entity;
    (b) The term ``entity'' means a partnership, association, trust, 
joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization; and
    (c) The term ``United States person'' means any United States 
citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of 
the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States 
(including foreign branches), or any person in the United States.
    Sec. 4. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including 
the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers 
granted to me by IEEPA, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of 
this order. The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of these 
functions to other officers and agencies of the United States 
Government. All agencies of the United States Government are hereby 
directed to take all appropriate measures within their authority to 
carry out the provisions of this order and, where appropriate, to advise 
the Secretary of the Treasury in a timely manner of the measures taken.
    Sec. 5. This order is not intended to create, nor does it create, 
any right, benefit, or privilege, substantive or procedural, enforceable 
at law by a party against the United States, its agencies, officers, or 
any other person.
    Sec. 6. (a) This order is effective at 12:01 eastern daylight time 
on June 27, 2001;
    (b) This order shall be transmitted to the Congress and published in 
the Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 June 26, 2001.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:33 a.m., June 28, 
2001]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on June 27, and it and the attached annexes were published in 
the Federal Register on June 29.