Pozdravljajući taj sporazum jer je on donio mir, James Pardew, američki posrednik u Makedoniji tokom ljeta 2001, izjavio je za skopski TV Kanal 5, "Da su se [borbe] razvile u potpuni rat, on bi uništio Makedoniju kao zemlju."
Hailing the pact for bringing peace, James Pardew, a US mediator in Macedonia during the summer of 2001, told Skopje's Kanal 5 TV channel, "Had [the fighting] broken out into a full-scale war, it would have destroyed Macedonia as a country."