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Skënder Durmishi
My impression is that , with a time going, and as far away we go from the
moment the signature was put in the Agreement, its importance is clearer and
better understood.
A very powerful proof is the result of its implementation until now. The
results provide further encouragement to continue with implementation of the
remaining parts of the Agreement.
In addition, the topic of the conference, “Ohrid Framework Agreement:
Towards Macedonia’s membership in EU and NATO”, is an appropriate one when
considering the correlation of these two goals and situations. This title is in itself
quite inspiring and partly contains the answer to many questions.
By concluding the Agreement and afterwards with the steps taken to
implement it, Macedonia has made a huge step, towards Euro-Atlantic
integrations.
The Ohrid Agreement has its undisputable importance in the context of
regional perspective. The model and the agreement modalities are the
assumption of building relaxed relations, multi-ethnic harmony as an important
precondition for further steps towards the regional and Euro-Atlantic integration.
Kosovo, its Government and other Institutions, have always fully supported
the Ohrid Agreement, considering it as a document and value of high importance
providing the right solution for a specific situation as well as establishing new
possibilities of the Republic of Macedonia towards progress and prosperity.
Prishtina has supported Ohrid Agreement during all of its stages while a
special form of support is given by moving along similar paths through designing
and approving the Ahtisari Agreement. As you know this agreement (Ahtisary
Document) was not easy to be approved; even the most common assessment in all
instances was that this agreement constitutes a painful compromise.
Today, it has been implemented in its greatest part. Without a wide support
and needed commitment, the results in implementation of Ahtisari Agreement
would have never been achieved. The Ahtisari Agreement has its opponents as
well, but its benefits, solutions to particular situations, especially solutions
provided for the minority communities can today serve as a model.
These two documents, among other advantages, in their essence, in their
provisions, constitute a strong framework for the cultivation of logic of
collaboration and establishing predispositions for regional cooperation.
Honored participants,
Coming back to the topic of the Conference, we can say that the Ohrid
Framework Agreement is a document that is not obsolete nor demode, especially
if we observe it as a value. The document continues to be important , without
alternatives, and everything valuable is measured through its alternatives, isn’t
it? What would be an alternative to the Ohrid Agreement at this moment?
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