No further information is available. However, it was said that Macedonia must have a concrete police force, judicial system and public administration reforms to be considered for the EU membership.¹

“In the period of 2002 till 2006, the representation of the ethnic communities in the public administration increased notably (see data below). This process was accompanied by great resistance within the Macedonian majority. However, the results of this policy are visible: in less than four years, the level of equal representation of the minority groups in the state institutions has risen from the poor 2% to 16.3%. Between December 2002 and December 2005, the number of Albanians employed in the public administration increased from 8,164 to 11,290. According to the analyses of the Sector for Implementation of the Framework Agreement, on average 19 representatives of the minority groups commenced working in the public administration per week or four persons per day. Furthermore, “the percentage of Albanian civil servants has [since] risen in the police from only two to 16 percent, in the Ministry for Defense from two to 14 percent and in the Ministry for Economy from less than five to 24 percent.”²

No report available on civil administration reform but the reform process taken in 2003 was underway.

Reform in civil administration was hampered by the economic reforms. On November 15, 2004, prime minister Kostov resigned by “accusing the Albanians of having hampered the process of economic reforms and of “worrying only about holding posts in the public administration,” a guarantee given to ethnic minorities by the 2001 peace agreement.”³

Reform in civil administration was underway. The multi-ethnic government which was formed in 1 November 2002, made significant effort to ensure ethnic integration in the country. By the end of the current government’s term, the representation of ethnic Albanian in public administration was expected to grow to 17 percent. In November 2003, the government started some 600 ethnic Albanians for civil servants, to be employed in state institutions in 2004.⁴

No information available on public administration reform. During the 1990s, Albanians made up only 10.2 percent of the overall state administration. In the area of security they made up 2.9 percent of army officers and defense ministry personnel. They constituted 8.7 percent of employees in the ministry of interior and only 4 percent of the police force.[fn]Merle Vetterlein, “The Influence of the Ohrid Framework Agreement on the Educational Policy of the Republic of Macedonia,” (Paper presented at the 8th Annual Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop, February 3, 2006, http://www.hks.harvard.edu/kokkalis/GSW8/Vetterlein_Paper.pdf, page 5).[/efn_note]

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