There were also positive assessments of defence reforms, accompanied by support for accelerating the professionalisation of the army, doing away with some equipment, modernising military doctrine, multi-annual defence budget planning, and increasing the number of representatives of the ethnic communities of Macedonia in the armed forces.
Pozitivno su ocenjene reforme u sektoru bezbednosti i data je podrška ubrzanju profesionalizacije vojske, rashodovanju određene vojne opreme, modernizaciji vojne doktrine, višegodišnjem planiranju vojnog budžeta i povećanom broju predstavnika makedonskih nacionalnih zajednica u oružanim snagama.