Political experts believe that the recent letter of Fazli Veliu, president of the Association of Veterans of the NLA, sent to the state leadership with an ultimatum that the status of the former NLA members should be resolved by 17 January is in fact pressure from BDI chairman Ali Ahmeti on his coalition partner Nikola Gruevski, Dnevnik reports.

Veliu demands that the head of state, the prime minister and the parliament speaker should resolve the status of the disabled NLA fighters and the families of those who got killed or else face consequences.

“We demand of the authorities to resolve this issue fairly by 17 January 2012. We would be more peaceful if the solution was at the required level. If the issue is handled as before, we are going to decide together what to do. We don’t want the events that hurt so many families to be repeated,” Veliu threatened.

BDI refused to comment on Veliu’s ultimatum, explaining that he acted as chairman of the Association of NLA Veterans.