Police uniforms in North Macedonia will also be in Albanian language, in municipalities where over 20 percent of the population is Albanian. 

The announcement of the Government, published on Tuesday, March 15, states that the decision was adopted on the basis of the Law on the Use of Languages. 

"Police uniforms in Skopje and in municipalities where at least 20 percent of citizens speak an official language (Albanian) other than Macedonian, are written in Macedonian and in the language used by at least 20 percent of citizens in the Republic of North Macedonia," it is said in the announcement of the Government. 

The decision enters into force on the eighth day from its publication in the Official Gazette, and will be implemented within one year of its entry into force. 

The decision was announced by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Political System, Artan Grubi, who announced on social networks that "The government has decided that police uniforms in the future will have an inscription in Albanian." 

"Another task was fulfilled today! Albanian language even in police uniforms", Grubi wrote on the social network Facebook. 

The law on the use of languages, according to which the Albanian language is widely used in Albanian-majority municipalities, as well as in state institutions, was adopted in January 2019. 

In the central institutions, all the boards are in two languages, while in the Government and the Assembly, the Albanian ministers, the MPs and the Speaker of the Assembly, use the Albanian language, while the documents are published in two languages. Even in the Government, Albanian ministers have the right to use the Albanian language in writing and speaking. 

Albanian parties have demanded the use of Albanian in the army and banknotes, but this was rejected by the Government after an opinion of the Venice Commission, which considers that their use is contrary to the constitution.