Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski revealed that the day of the tragedy in Kochani was the "hardest day of his life - not just as a prime minister, but as a human being". Mickoski made this statement at an international conference in Skopje dedicated to institutional and clinical solutions following the Kochani tragedy, on the anniversary of the fire.

The Prime Minister read the names of all 64 victims of the fire at the "Puls" club, emphasizing that they "were not statistics but lives, fates, families". He acknowledged that when his government came to power only eight months earlier, the country had to "pay the bill for a system destroyed over decades".

Mickoski called the tragedy a deep wound in Macedonian society, but at the same time emphasized that the state had learned important lessons. He also announced infrastructure investments in Kochani with the aim of permanently honoring the memory of the victims.