The Ohrid Framework Agreement (Macedonian: Охридски рамковен договор, Albanian: Marrëveshja e Ohrit) was the peace deal signed by the government of the Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) and representatives of the Albanian minority on 13 August 2001.
The agreement was signed by the country's four political parties after international mediators demanded their commitment to its ratification and implementation within a four-year period.
[2] The Ohrid Agreement created a framework for North Macedonia as a civic state, ending the armed conflict between the National Liberation Army and the security forces of Macedonia.
[3] It established basic principles of the state such as cessation of hostilities, voluntary disarmament of ethnic Albanian armed groups, government devolution, and the reform of minority political and cultural rights.
The lead negotiator, on the behalf of the European Union, was François Léotard.