Status and rights of nationalities in the Republic of Macedonia

Abstract

The status and rights of national minorities (this latter term, which has been generally accepted both in scholarly work and theory, and in the documents of the United Nations Organisation, has, in the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia, been replaced by the word ‘nationalities’) is a subject of interest and study in both scholarly work and theory, as well as of policies and state organisation, especially in the countries where, in addition to the nation which has created the state, there are also members of peoples which have their own states.¹

First published in Balkan Forum, Skopje, vol. 4, no. 2 (June 1996).