"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.
„Izjava predsednika Srbije je posebno važna zbog trenda koji postoji među mlađom generacijom istoričara i Srpskom akademijom nauka i umetnosti, koji još uvek gledaju na Makedoniju kao na južnu Srbiju, a Makedonce tretiraju kao Srbe“, izjavila je za SETimes makedonska istoričarka Violeta Ačkovska.