Anniversary of Ohrid Agreement

Turning the eight years since the signing of the Ohrid Framework Agreement that ended the conflict of the Macedonian security forces and the so-called National Liberation Army. The agreement has set a model for resolving the rights of Albanians in Macedonia.

In Macedonia is marked eight years since the signing of the Ohrid Framework Agreement that ended the conflict of the Macedonian security forces and the so-called National Liberation Army (ONA) and set the framework for resolving questions of law the Albanians in Macedonia.

Ohrid agreement signed 13th August 2001. It is the adoption of several laws for the Albanians more rights, such as the Law on the use of language, the law for higher employment in the administration, the Law on the police.

The central celebration will be held in Mavrovo, was organized by the Secretariat for the implementation of the Ohrid Framework Agreement.

The last analysis of the Institute for Democracy on the implementation of the Ohrid Framework Agreement has shown that more than 50 percent of citizens support the agreement.

European Union and the United States, which supported the signing of the Agreement and its creators were practically, consider that the agreement is good and that its content should not be changed, but in the whole meet.

EU ambassador in Macedonia Ervan fuer considers that the agreement "the best instrument for the support of stability and multi-ethnic character of the state."

U.S. Ambassador in Skopje Filip Riker considered to have weaknesses in the implementation of the Ohrid Framework Agreement and is in the interest of all ethnic communities to focus on the meeting, especially when it comes to decentralization, the integration of minority communities in the field of education and efficient sporovođenju law on language.

The signatories to the Ohrid Framework Agreement 13th August 2001. year were former President Boris Trajkovski and the leaders of VMRO-DPMNE Ljupčo Georgievski, social Alliance of Macedonia (SDSM) Branko Crvenkovski, the Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA) Arben Džaferi and former head of ONA, Ali Ahmeti, which is now the leader of the Party of Democratic Union for Integration (DUI ), members of the ruling coalition.

Opposition DPA now search changes the agreement because he, as assessed, obsolete and therefore they need better and more efficient to define relations of Macedonians and Albanians. DUI, however, believes that the new agreement is not required and that all need to support their application.

The ruling VMRO-DPMNE assessed that the agreement for the most part successfully implemented and that in Macedonia the rights of all minorities are respected.

Opposition SDSM considers that Ohrid Agreement as a whole reflects the multi-ethnic, multicultural and multi-character state and is of great importance to be fully applied.

Experts who worked on the text of the agreement, teachers and Frčkovski Ljubomir Vlado Popovski believe that the use of Albanian language in official communication in the government outside of the Ohrid Framework Agreement.