Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met with OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger on the margins of the annual UN General Assembly session in New York on Tuesday.

A foreign ministry press release said they discussed preparations for the coming OSCE ministerial meeting in Milano.

It added that Dacic voiced gratitude for OSCE support and the intensive dialogue the organization’s mission in Belgrade has with Serbian institutions while Greminger expressed full support to the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue to find a viable solution through political means.

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Italy’s Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano and OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger expressed today their outrage at the murder of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanović and offered their heartfelt condolences to his family and friends.

We are shocked by the murder of Oliver Ivanović. We condemn it in the strongest possible terms and we ask that a swift and thorough investigation shall be conducted immediately in order to identify those responsible for such a heinous crime,” said Alfano and Greminger.