OSCE Mission to Skopje

Activities

Inter-ethnic relations

Children of different ethnicities attend the same primary school for integrated education in the village of Preljubishte, Tetovo. The OSCE Mission to Skopje promotes interethnic education as part of its regular activities. (OSCE/Jonathan Perfect)
Children of different ethnicities attend the same primary school for integrated education in the village of Preljubishte, Tetovo. The OSCE Mission to Skopje promotes interethnic education as part of its regular activities. (OSCE/Jonathan Perfect)

With the purpose of strategically guiding and aligning programmatic activities touching on inter-ethnic relations, and seeking to provide for a more focused, integrated and coordinated approach of the ethnic dimension of the Mission’s work, a specialized Co-ordination Unit Inter-Ethnic Relations (CIE) reinforces the work of the Human Dimension Department.

The Unit closely co-operates with the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and the governmental Secretariat for the Implementation of the Ohrid Framework Agreement (SIOFA) in order to facilitate the continued strengthening of the essential pillars of the Agreement: education, decentralisation, equitable representation, the use of languages and non-discrimination.

It develops strategic initiatives and promotes complementary efforts furthering the sustainable integration of society, such as the 2010 Government Strategy towards Integrated Education.