Unblocking of Three Individuals Blocked Pursuant to Executive Order 13219, as Amended, 7280 [2014-02562]

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• DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
• Office of Foreign Assets Control

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 25 (Thursday, February 6, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 7280]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing 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.
[FR Doc. 2014-02562 Filed 2-5-14; 8:45 am]
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