BELGRADE, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The killing of Oliver Ivanovic, prominent Kosovo Serb politician, must unite Kosovo Serbs, while Serbia will help them with investment and guarantee their security, Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic said during his visit to Kosovo on Saturday.
Vucic arrived in Kosovo in the morning, carrying a message of unity and strength directed towards local Serbs who are frightened after the assassination of Ivanovic in the north of Kosovo, public broadcaster RTS reported.
Kosovo unilaterally declared independence in 2008 that Serbia categorically rejects to recognize. But the two sides are engaged in negotiations within a European Union-mediated Brussels agreement on normalization of relations, which is a condition for their progress in European integrations.
Vucic laid wreaths at the place where several days ago Ivanovic was shot in front of his office in North Mitrovica with a pistol out of a moving car, and headed on to meet mayor of North Mitrovica Goran Rakic and other Kosovo Serb leaders at the building of the Faculty of Technics.
After the three-hour-long meeting, he told journalists that there will be no mercy towards those who killed Ivanovic.
"Nothing is more needed at this moment than peace and to stay and survive here where our homes are," Vucic said.
He continued that he talked with prominent Serb politicians and businessmen in Kosovo about their everyday problems and the unity.
Among the topics were the negotiations around the implementation of the Brussels agreement that were urgently stopped by the Serbian side after the assassination of Ivanovic, as well as the future investments from Serbia in the North Kosovo mostly populated by Serbs.
"Serbs must stay and survive in Kosovo and Serbia is there to continue helping them," Vucic said, adding that the country will do everything to maintain peace and settle disputes with Albanians.
