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FM Osmani: Ohrid Framework Agreement most successful international mediated agreement

FM Osmani: Ohrid Framework Agreement most successful international mediated agreement
Skopje, 11 August 2021 (MIA) - The Ohrid Framework Agreement is the most successful international mediated treaty in the former Yugoslavia, Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani told reporters at Wednesday’s press conference. "If we compare all signed peace agreements in the region in the past 20, 30 years, it was the only agreement that has been fully implemented, in its legislative part, in the part of the laws arising from the agreement. This agreement is clearly the most successful and it is shown in everyday life. Through the transformation of this country from a state in which the framework was set to accept an ethnic community in this functional multiethnic democracy we live in now, which becomes an example first that multiethnic functional democracies are possible in the region and an example of how to resolve similar issues, no not only in the region, but also beyond,” Osmani underlined. He added that he was proud to be part of an organization that participated in the creation and implementation of the agreement. According to him, the spirit imposed by the Ohrid Framework Agreement will never cease. “The requirements foreseen under the Ohrid Framework Agreement is for the state to provide inclusion and opportunity for all citizens to work and live in it. As long as this country exists, the spirit of the Ohrid Framework Agreement will exist,” Osmani said, adding that the laws that were supposed to be adopted, were adopted in this period, including the Law on the Use of Languages. Asked about internally displaced persons from the 2001 conflict and their status, Osmani told reporters that an important component of the Ohrid Framework Agreement was their social integration, resocialization and improvement of their living conditions. “This issue is very important and a lot has been done so far, but more remains to be done,” Osmani said.