- Dear sporting friends, the friendly collaboration between our handball federations is at a very high level, which is why we were greatly disturbed that during our friendly match between the two national teams a Greek flag was displayed, - states RSS in its letter to the Macedonian Handball Federation.

The Serbian Handball Federation says they reacted to have the flag removed, however the scarce security wasn't able to remove the flag without entering into a physical confrontation with fans.

- There were 3,500 fans in the arena, while our security was almost not existent because it was a friendly match between two countries  that have never had any issues. In the name of the Serbian Handball Federation we'd like to officially apologize for this incident, and we assure you at no point did we intend to provoke the Macedonian handball players or make them feel uncomfortable.

 When it comes to the Serbian state TV RTS using the acronym, the Serb Handball Federation says although they can not do anything when it comes to RTS, the TV station has been duly contacted and informed of their mistake.