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Internally Displaced Persons: Ohrid Agreement

Implementations

Internally Displaced Persons – 2001

Gradual progress was made in resettling the IDPs. In 2001, there were an estimated 510,000 refugees.¹ By the end of NATO’s Operation Essential Harvest ( 27 Sept. 2001), some 55,000 IDPs had gone home.²

“Internal displacement caused by conflict and violence,” Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), July 16, 2010, accessed March 10, 2011, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4c4030912.html.
“REFUGEES RETURN TO MACEDONIA SLOWS-UNHCR,” ONASA News Agency, September 28, 2001.

Internally Displaced Persons – 2002

The IDMC did not report IDPs from 2002 to 2009, which suggests that the IDPs were rehabilitated. Also, international donor agencies and European countries provided supports in resettling the IDPs.