[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 25 (Thursday, February 6, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 7280]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-02562]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of Foreign Assets Control
Unblocking of Three Individuals Blocked Pursuant to Executive
Order 13219, as Amended
SUB-AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control
(``OFAC'') is publishing the name of three individuals whose property
and interests in property are being unblocked pursuant to Executive
Order 13219 of June 26, 2001 ``Blocking Property of Persons Who
Threaten International Stabilization Efforts in the Western Balkans,''
as amended by Executive Order 13304 of May 28, 2003 ``Termination of
Emergencies With Respect to Yugoslavia and Modification of Executive
Order 13219 of June 26, 2001.''
DATES: The unblocking of property and interests in property and the
removal of the three individuals identified in this Notice from the
list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (``SDN
List'') is effective on February 6, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Compliance
Outreach & Implementation, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department
of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220, tel.: 202/622-2490.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Electronic and Facsimile Availability
This document and additional information concerning OFAC are
available from OFAC's Web site (www.treasury.gov/ofac) or via facsimile
through a 24-hour fax-on-demand service, tel.: 202/622-0077.
Background
On June 26, 2001, the President, invoking the authority of, inter
alia, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701
et seq.) (``IEEPA''), issued Executive Order 13219, ``Blocking Property
of Persons Who Threaten International Stabilization Efforts in the
Western Balkans'' (66 Fed. Reg. 34777, June 29, 2001) (``E.O. 13219'').
In E.O. 13219, the President declared a national emergency with respect
to 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 in Kosovo.
On May 28, 2003, the President issued Executive Order 13304,
``Termination of Emergencies With Respect to Yugoslavia and
Modification of Executive Order 13219 of June 26, 2001'' (68 FR 32315,
May 29, 2003) (``E.O. 13304''), terminating the national emergencies
declared in Executive Order 12808 of May 20, 1992, and Executive Order
13088 of June 9, 1998, with respect to the former Socialist Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, revoking those and related executive orders,
and taking additional steps with regard to the national emergency
declared in E.O. 13219. Section 1 of E.O. 13219, as amended by E.O.
13304, blocks, with certain exceptions, all property and interests in
property that are in the United States, or that hereafter come within
the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession
or control of United States persons, of: (i) Persons listed in its
Annex and (ii) persons designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, in
consultation with the Secretary of State, because they are determined:
(A) To be under open indictment by the International Criminal Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia, unless circumstances warrant otherwise, or
(B) 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 (C) to have actively obstructed, or pose
a significant risk of actively obstructing, the Ohrid Framework
Agreement of 2001 relating to Macedonia, United Nations Security
Council Resolution 1244 relating to Kosovo, or the Dayton Accords or
the Conclusions of the Peace Implementation Conference held in London
on December 8-9, 1995, including the decisions or conclusions of the
High Representative, the Peace Implementation Council or its Steering
Board, relating to Bosnia and Herzegovina; or (D) to have materially
assisted in, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or
technological support for, or goods or services in support of, such
acts of violence or obstructionism or any person listed in or
designated pursuant to E.O. 13219, as amended; or (E) 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.
The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control,
in consultation with the Department of State, has determined that
circumstances no longer warrant inclusion of the following individuals
in the Annex to E.O. 13219, as amended by E.O. 13304, and that these
individuals should be removed from the SDN List:
Individuals
1. GOTOVINA, Ante; DOB 12 Oct 1955; POB Pasman, Croatia; ICTY
indictee individual) [BALKANS].
2. ORIC, Naser; DOB 3 Mar 1967; POB Potocari, Bosnia-Herzegovina;
ICTY indictee in custody (individual) [BALKANS].
The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control,
in consultation with the Department of State, has determined that the
following individual should be removed from the SDN List:
Individual
3. SAROVIC, Mirko; DOB 16 Sep 1956; POB Rogatica, Serbia
(individual) [BALKANS].
The removal of the individuals listed above from the SDN List is
effective as of [date of Federal Register Notice publication], 2014.
All property and interests in property of these individuals that are in
or hereafter come within the United States or the possession or control
of United States persons are no longer blocked pursuant to E.O. 13219,
as amended by E.O. 13304.
Dated: January 30, 2014.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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