translation.bs: "Izjava srbijanskog predsjednika posebno je važna jer u Srbiji među mlađom generacijom historičara i u Srpskoj akademiji nauka i umjetnosti još uvijek postoji trend da se na Makedoniju gleda kao na južnu Srbiju, a da se Makedonci tretiraju kao Srbi," izjavila je za SETimes makedonska historičarka Violeta Ačkovska.
translation.en: "The statement by the Serbian president is particularly important because there is a trend in Serbia among a younger generation of historians and in the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, to still view Macedonia as southern Serbia, and Macedonians are treated as Serbs," Macedonian historian Violeta Achkovska told SETimes.