The Ohrid Process on Border Security and Management is a joint effort by the five countries of the Western Balkan region, the EU, the OSCE, NATO and the Stability Pact to address the very sensitive issues of border management and security.

The whole process is based on the implementation of concrete measures, described in the two founding documents, the Way Forward Document and the Common Platform, which were signed during the Ohrid Conference in May 2003.

The Ohrid Border Process constitutes an integral part of the Stability Pact core objective on Managing and Stabilizing Population Movements.

Founding documents:

• Common Platform of the Ohrid Regional Conference
• Way forward document

Meetings:

• The Director of the Working Table III, Mr Pieter Verbeek,  gave a briefing to the COWEB on 18 January, about the latest developments of the Ohrid Process on Border Security and Management.  [Link to the speech]
• Review Meetings
  • Fourth Review Meeting: Ohrid Border Process, 8-9 November 2006, Podgorica:
    • Conclusions and  Opening speech by Amb. Janez Premoze, Chairman of the Ohrid Border Process
  • Third Review Meeting: Ohrid Border Process, 10-11 November 2005, Sarajevo [Minutes]
  • Second Review meeting , Tirana, October 2004 ( list of participants )
  • First Review meeting , Belgrade, November 2003
    
    
• Regional Table/Working Table III meetings
  • Ohrid Border Process Report, Regional Table/Working Table III meeting, Bucharest, 15 November 2006
  • Ohrid Border Process Report, Regional Table in Belgrade - 29 May 2006

Others

• EU-Western Balkans Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial meeting , 2 December 2004
• Briefing by Mr Pieter Verbeek, Director of the Working Table III, at the COWEB meeting, 18 January 2007

Contact

Melanie Pollard
Project Officer
Tel.: +32 (2) 401 8739
E-mail: melanie.pollard@stabilitypact.org