Macedonia Web Links

Below are links by topical categories to resources primarily in English providing information on Macedonia. For related web links, see Regional Resources: Europe [1], particularly those for Kosovo [2] and Southeastern Europe [3]. For links related to NATO expansion, see NATO at Fifty: Web Links [4]. For more USIP resources see Macedonia [5].

• General Resources [6]
• Government Agencies and International Organizations [7]
• Maps and Guides [8]
• Media and News Sources [9]
• Political Resources [10]
• Selected Documents [11]

These links complement four Institute Special Reports:

1. Macedonia: Prevention Can Work [12]
2. The Future of Macedonia: a Balkan Survivor Now Needs Reform [13]
3. Taking Stock and Looking Forward: Intervention in the Balkans and Beyond [14]
4. Putting Peace into Practice: Can Macedonia's New Government Meet the Challenge? [15]

These web links also support USIP's Balkans Initiative [16].

General Resources

• CEESource: Central and East European Legal, Political, Business and Economics WWW Resources: Macedonia [17]
  From Gonzaga University School of Law, "with an emphasis on English-language links from government, academic, NGO, and news agency sources."
• Eastern Europe Links: Macedonia [18]
  From Texas Tech University's International Cultural Center (ICC) Library, annotated links to government, internet search tools (with automatic searches from three search engines), omnibus links sites, language and ethnic minority information.
• INCORE guide to Internet sources on conflict and ethnicity in Macedonia [19]
  A selective collection of annotated links to sources for news, articles and documents, NGOs, maps, etc. from the Initiative on Conflict Resolution & Ethnicity.
• ISN: Information Services: Crisis in Macedonia [20]
  Extensive annotated links to documents, government agencies, organizations, and news sources organized by the International Relations and Security Network in Zurich.
• .mk-The Macedonian Directory [21]
  Extensive directory of Macedonian-related resources with categories covering news and media, government and politics, organizations, arts and humanities, etc.
• REENIC: Russian and East European Network Information Center: Macedonia (Univ. of Texas) [22]
  "REENIC is a collection of links to websites with information about East and Central Europe, Russia, and the newly independent countries of the former Soviet Union." Includes a site search engine. Information is organized by type of resource and by country.
• REESWeb: East European Studies Virtual Library (Univ. of Pittsburgh) [23]
  REESWeb has a comprehensive database of annotated electronic resources for Russia and Eastern Europe which can be browsed [24] by subject, culture, region (including Macedonia) or time period. A keyword search [25] is also available.
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Government Agencies and International Organizations

European Union (EU)

• Europa, the European Union On-line [27]
  Europa contains substantive material on the European Union, its institutions and policies, official documents, publications, news and other information resources.
• The EU and South-Eastern Europe: External Relations [28]
  The European Commission's comprehensive approach to southeastern Europe, with links to documents and speeches, council meetings and conclusions, and related links. Includes a section on the EU's relations with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. [29]
• The EU and South-Eastern Europe: Stablisation and Association Process for the countries of South-Eastern Europe [30]
  Description of the Stabilisation and Association process, contractual relations in the form of Stabilisation and Association Agreements (SAAs), and links to related documents.

International Crisis Group (ICG)

• CrisisWeb: the International Crisis Group on-line system [31]
  The ICG web site has a brief overview of its Balkans Program [32], organized by country or region: Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia [33]. which in turn, links to reports and breaking news for that region.

Republic of Macedonia

• Republic of Macedonia: Agency of Information [34]
  The Agency of Information web site has current news releases (archive [35] from 1997), press conferences, statements, general information about Macedonia, statistical information. A section on the Presidential Elections 99 [36] includes ballots and results, election regulations, the Law of Presidential Election, State Election Commission news, and press coverage. Also inks to the government web site [37], other official web sites and related web sites.
• Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Macedonia [38]
  The Ministry of Defence web site has information on events, speeches, publications, documents detailing defense strategy. Also includes a document [39] on The Republic of Macedonia and its relationship to NATO and the Partnership for Peace, a description of PfP/NATO exercises [40] and links [41] to foreign defense and military sites. Also includes a link from the main page [42] to a list of news items on activities at the border area [43] with Kosovo.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) [44]
  Home page of the organization has news updates on the current NATO role in Macedonia and links to an overview of current operations [45]. Links include the current Operation Amber Fox [46] and its accompanying Task Force Fox [47] as well as "Operation Essential Harvest [48] and its accompanying Task Force Harvest [49]. Pages contain background information, press releases, speeches, a chronology and links to related web sites.

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

• Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) [50]
  Web site of the OSCE includes news, a newsletter, journals, press releases and a documents archive. Includes reports [51] on elections in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.

United Nations (UN)

• ReliefWeb: Balkans The Latest [52]
  ReliefWeb [53], a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), has a database of the latest news and reports on the humanitarian crisis in Macedonia and the Balkans. The database can be searched by month going back to December 1997, by source (organization name), by format or type of report, or by the latest news first. Keyword search capability is available, as are links to related reports. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: The Latest [54] country information has additional material and links. Within country listing, related links include background information and topics such as refugees and IDPs [55] with a link to IDPs in Macedonia [56] from the Global IDP Project [57] on internally displaced persons. ReliefWeb also includes a map center [58], site map and search capability.
• UNHCR: Country of Origin and Legal Information [59]
  The web site for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has databases for country of origin and legal information documents and reports. Pull-down menus allow selection by country and/or subject and a specific search engine feature is also provided. Each country compilation includes links to country reports, legal documents, news and maps.
• United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (UNPREDEP) [60]
  The web site describing the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP) March 1995 - February 1999.

United States

• U. S. European Command [61]
  The United States European Command web site links to military operations information for Macedonia [62] and related links.
• Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: 2001 [63]
  The U.S. State Department's extensive report on human rights in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, March 4, 2002. Reports for 2000 [64] and previous years 1993-1999 [65] are available online.
• U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID): Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia [66]
  Country information on Macedonia with congressional presentations on USAID activities and links to related web sites.
• U.S. Department of State: International Information Programs: Europe-Eurasia Issues [67]
  This page contains several links to documents, news sources, and government web sites, with particular focus on Macedonia [68].

World Bank

• Economic Reconstruction and Development in South East Europe [69]
  A joint web site of the European Commission and the World Bank created "as part of the international community's reponse to the Kosovo crisis," it contains a calendar of events/conferences, news releases, speeches and statements [70], documents issued by the EU, UN, IMF and IMF/WB, including the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe [71] dated June 10, 1999, links to related sites, with other sections of the web site under construction. The announcement [72] of the launching of the joint web site describes the scope and types of information that will be covered, including assessment of the economic impacts and costs of the Kosovo crisis, reconstruction needs, and register of donor assistance.
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Maps and Guides

• BBC NEWS | History File | Yugoslavia & the Balkans | 1900-1998 [73]
  Clicking on the dates of the timeline gives a picture of the Balkan borders over time and a brief historical overview.
• CIA World Factbook: Macedonia [74]
  Country information, including a map, flag and discussion of geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues.
• The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Maps [75]
  Maps from the Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection of the University of Texas at Austin. These maps were produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The PCL map collection includes related, regional maps and links to maps on other web sites.
• ReliefWeb Map Centre: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia [76]
  Maps from ReliefWeb of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia feature a general map, the border with Kosovo, hot spots in northern FYR Macedonia, and other maps.
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Media and News Sources

• Institute for War and Peace Reporting [77]
  "An independent publishing and media group" based in London, the web site of the IPWR contains several special reports on the conflict in the region, such as the Balkan Crisis Reports [78] and Tribunal Update [79], which reports on the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Balkans Crisis Report no. 228, March 21 2001, covers the situation in Macedonia on issues of NLA autonomy, western support for Macedonia, ending the violence, Albanian perspectives, etc.
• OK.mk [80]
  The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has supported, with donations of computer equipment, the development of this web site which is the product of FORUM Centre for Strategic Research and Documentation, a Macedonian non-governmental organization. The web site contains news reports on Macedonia from a variety of sources, news analyses, maps, photos and links to several other web sites.
• OneWorld.net: Macedonia [81]
  Current news stories and analysis on Macedonia from OneWorld partners. Also includes a special report [82] on Macedonia with the latest news, comments and analysis.
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) [83]
  The Newsline [84] daily reports cover developments in the region: RFE/RL Newsline for Southeastern Europe [85] contains news from Macedonia. Related reports include the REF/RL Balkan Report [86] and RFE/RL Newsline for Central and Eastern Europe [87] with links to news broadcasts in four languages, as well as a list of links to related web sites for Macedonia [88]. Archives of past issues and subscription by e-mail are also available.
• Search for Common Ground in Macedonia (SCGM) [89]
  Web site describes the partnership of Search for Common Ground and European Centre for Common Ground in creating SCGM and the resultant media projects: a children's television series, a documentary series, an interethnic radio journalism program, etc.
• Yahoo! News: Full Coverage: Macedonia [90]
  Numerous links to news sources, stories from various wire services, reports in audio and video, and related web sites.
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Political Resources

• Democratic Alternative Party (DA) [91]
  Web site of the political party. In Macedonian.
• Elections in Macedonica [92]
  Part of the larger web site Elections around the world [93] maintained by Wilfrid Derksen, this page includes vote percentages by candidate and links to other political resources for Macedonia.
• Governments on the WWW: Macedonia [94]
  Web page is a list of links to national institutions, including government web pages, political parties and other related web sites.
• Party for Democratic Prosperity [95]
  Web site of the political party. In Albanian. English version under construction.
• Political Resources on the Net: Macedonia [96]
  Web site links to government agencies, political parties and organizations and media sources.
• Social Democratic Alliance of Macedonia (SDSM) [97]
  Web site of the political party. In Macedonian.
• VMRO-DPMNE: Macedonian Revolutionary Organization-Democratic Party for Macedonian Unity [98]
  Web site of the political party. In Macedonian.
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Selected Documents

• Agreement on the Regulation of Relations and Promotion of Cooperation between the Republic of Macedonia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia [99]
  Agreement between the two parties signed in Belgrade on April 8, 1996. Part of the U.S. Institute of Peace Library's Peace Agreements Digital Collection.
• Framework Agreement [100]
  Agreement signed in Skopje, Macedonia on August 13 2001. Part of the U.S. Institute of Peace Library's Peace Agreements Digital Collection.
• Macedonia Constitution [101]
  Full text of the Republic of Macedonia Constitution dated 1991, from the ICL-International Constitutional Law web site at the University of Wuerzburg in Germany.
• Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe [71]
  Full text of the document adopted by numerous foreign ministers and representatives of regional organizations meeting in Cologne on June 10, 1999 under the aegis of the European Union in response to the Kosovo crisis.

Updated: January 22 2003