The closing of the Hague cases has caused in Macedonia a storm of reactions, especially from Macedonian defenders and relatives of the kidnapped Macedonians. Representatives of the Union of Defenders were visibly angered Wednesday by the agreement between VMRO-DPMNE and BDI over the Hague cases. Their representative Aco Stojanovski told reporters he no longer had patience. “Important to us now is that they pay us damages. Everything else no longer has any point.”

Retired Colonel Blagoja Markovski said Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia did not deal with the Hague cases as Macedonia has done.

“Their cases had a court resolution. We should have removed politics and proved responsibility for these crimes in court,” Markovski said.