The Ohrid Agreement (the official name is the Framework Agreement ) is a document signed by the Macedonian government and Albanian political forces under pressure from the international community on August 13, 2001 .
Content
Situation
The Ohrid Agreement led to a cease-fire in the 2001 conflict .
Negotiation
The negotiations were conducted by the VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM political parties from the Macedonian side and the ADP and the PDP from the Albanian side. The rebels, members of the National Liberation Army, did not take any official part in the negotiations.
The agreement was signed by the President of Macedonia, Boris Traikovsky .
Principles
- the inadmissibility of the use of violence for political purposes;
- preservation of the sovereignty , territorial integrity and unitary nature of the state;
- the impossibility of territorial solutions of ethnic contradictions ;
- reflection of polyethnicity of Macedonia in public life;
- the democratic course of the state;
- international human rights standards;
- local government development;
- mandatory granting of official status, along with Macedonian, to any language spoken by at least 20% of the country's population
- Mandatory provision of local official status to any language spoken by at least 20% of the population living in the territory of the relevant local government.
Execution
See also
- Democratic Union for Integration
Links
- Full text of the agreement (on the Council of Europe website)