Following a meeting with Trajkovski on Monday (18 March), Steiner said "We both agreed on the need to take into consideration the lives of normal people on the ground, and the practical problems of their daily lives that need to be resolved." He also stressed that the border demarcation agreement Yugoslavia and Macedonia signed on 23 February 2001 must be respected.
Posle sastanka sa Trajkovskim u ponedeljak (18. mart) Stajner je izjavio: «Mi smo se složili da je potrebno uzeti u obzir živote običnih građana u toj oblasti, i praktične probleme sa kojima se susreću u svakodnevnom životu a koje bi trebalo rešiti». On je takođe istakao da granični sporazum Jugoslavije i Makedonije potpisan 23. februara 2001. mora biti ispoštovan.