The IOM Mission in Skopje initially grew out of a need to support the work of IOM in Kosovo after the war in 1999, became a vital part of the emergency response to the 2001 war in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The strategic goal of the IOM Mission is to assist the country in the implementation of the Stabilization and Association Agreement , with particular emphasis on migration management and the implementation process of the Ohrid Framework Agreement . Since then, IOM Skopje activities have expanded to address a variety of pressing migration related issues including trafficking in human beings, confidence building, tech nical cooperation and institutional capacity building in the field of migration, Voluntary Return and Reintegration Programmes, HIV/AIDS, etc...