They live primarily in Albania and Greece but also in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Romania and Serbia, with an Aromanian diaspora notorious in size.
The activism of the ULCA was initially limited to Western Europe, spreading to the Eastern European countries in which most Aromanians live after the Revolutions of 1989 that brought an end to communism and a democratic system to the region.
[3] By 1993, the ULCA had held its third congress, in which a resolution calling for the legal recognition of the Aromanians as a minority group in all the countries in which they live natively was adopted.
The "Ferrarini" draft resolution, which incited the defense of the Aromanian language, was adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly on 3 May 1994, being signed by representatives of France, Italy, Portugal, San Marino and Romania.
[6] After having conducted three years of research,[5] on 24 June 1997, de Puig presented the report Document 7728 to the Parliamentary Assembly for debate during its 18th sitting.
[8] The recognition of the Aromanians as an ethnic minority was not demanded as de Puig intended to avoid political controversies and focus the recommendation purely on the cultural field as he would later explain.