• • Reduced level of ethnic distance in Montenegro Adequate regulation of their legal status. Directions of development of Montenegro 2018-2021 In 2017, the Government of Montenegro adopted the Development Directions of Montenegro 20182021, which are one of the umbrella strategic documents with which the public policy needs to be harmonized. In the context of ensuring the rights to minority nations and other minority national communities, it is important to note that the subject document emphasizes the need to improve the quality of education, the need to produce competitive workforce and to train workers to meet the needs of the labor market as well as to develop an inclusive education system. In this regard, the Strategy for Social Inclusion of Roma and Egyptians 2020-2025 develops an approach that contributes to the realization of the priorities of the DDMN, especially in the fields of education and housing, that is, in the part concerning the increase in a number of three years olds to school age children taking pre-school education and in the part of solving the housing issues of displaced and internally displaced persons through the implementation of the Regional Housing Program (RHP). Montenegro Economic Reform Programme (PER) 2021-2023 The strategic document is also in line with the measures contained in the Montenegro Economic Reform Programme (PER) 2021-2023 in terms of employment and labor market, namely the priority measures concerned with the increase in participation, especially of vulnerable groups of unemployed individuals, in the labor market. In this sense, Roma and Egyptians are recognized as a vulnerable category in employment, whereby the PER envisages the need to identify unemployed persons who are at risk in the labor market, to define measures and programs of active employment policy, as well as those aimed at providing training, skills and experience required in the labor market. When it comes to social inclusion, poverty reduction and equal opportunities, the PER places an emphasis on the development of services in the field of social protection and child protection which will remove the obstacle towards an easier access to services for vulnerable categories of people. Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking 2019-2024 The strategic document envisages a series of activities related to the implementation of campaigns of raising awareness among the general population about human trafficking, vulnerable groups, largely consisting of Roma and Egyptians. Through preventive activities by representatives of institutions cooperating with the civil sector, special attention is given to raising the awareness of the Roma and Egyptian populations about the negative consequences of illegal marriages as a manifestation of the criminal offense of human trafficking. The primary activities/measures with which the new strategic document dealing with the position of the RE population is harmonized refer to: • • Improving the knowledge of all professionals and representatives of the non-governmental sector who are in contact/may come into contact with victims of trafficking in terms of the identification, referral and protection of victims and criminal prosecution of perpetrators; Reducing the vulnerability of vulnerable groups by supporting the projects for their empowerment; 8