Abbot Sava Janjic today spoke about assassinated leader of Civic Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice, (GI SDP) Oliver Ivanovic, B92 reports.

“A man who did not measure Kosovo and Metohija by meters and percentages, who fought for the people, and not for his personal interest, who was heinously killed from a back, speaks today louder than ever before, distorting those who have hunted him, a man who did not spread defeatism, but hope – Oliver Ivanovic,” Abbot of Visoki Decani Sava Janjic wrote on Facebook.

Reconstruction of a road near Visoki Decani Monastery and lack of progress in Oliver Ivanovic murder investigation are reasons for concern in Kosovo, UN SG Antonio Guterres said, Serbian national broadcaster RTS reported. UN SG Guterres at the same time welcomed continuation of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue under EU auspices.

The investigation of Oliver Ivanovic murder by the Serbian investigative authorities has advanced in recent weeks. I expect results -  Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in Paris, KoSSev portal reported.

The Serbian President conveyed this information and expectations during a joint press conference with the French President, Emmanuel Macron in Paris, responding to a question of a journalist from Radio France.

“Six months have passed since the murder of Oliver Ivanovic and we do not know how the investigation would unfold. This is in particular difficult for his family, that wishes justice to be served, but it is also difficult for all the people who live in Kosovo and think independently.”

This is the message of a Swiss Ambassador in Kosovo, Jean-Hubert Lebet on the occasion of a six-month anniversary of Oliver Ivanovic murder, Serbian media reported.

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo warned on Monday that the people who orchestrated the murder of Kosovo Serb political leader Oliver Ivanovic are still at large.

“Six months after Oliver Ivanović’s assassination, the culprits remain at large and little is publicly known regarding any possible progress in the investigation,” the OSCE Mission wrote in a Facebook post.

It called law enforcement agencies to invest efforts to solve the murder, calling it a test of the rule of law in Kosovo.

RTV Mir in Leposavic Director, Nenad Radosavljevic, speaking for “Slobodno sprski” talk show said that responsible bodies in Pristina cannot shed the light on the murder of Oliver Ivanovic, since they lack capacities and experience while Belgrade “simply does not want to do so,” Radio KIM reported.

Six months since the murder of Oliver Ivanovic, his colleagues, family members and true friends still have no information from the investigation related to his murder, Civic Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice (GI SDP) said in a press statement.

“Allegedly everybody is working on something, prosecution in Belgrade and prosecution in Pristina. They claim a number of witnesses was interviewed, but, yet we remain unfamiliar about any detail,” press statement further said.

Kossev portal wrote on Saturday that it appears it will be done not at the request of the Ivanovic’s party SDP but on a proposal of the Serbian List: ''Oliver Ivanovic and all innocent victims of our municipality will have a street named after them in North Mitrovica following a proposal of the Serbian List parliamentary group in the Municipal Assembly of North Mitrovica''. The head of the Kosovo Office, Marko Djuric, reacted almost simultaneously with the Serbian List, confirming that Oliver Ivanovic will have a street in North Mitrovica named after him, ''as per his credits''.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic reiterated on Thursday that "Serbia leads an independent policy, and citizens are the ones who decide."

Vucic added that in terms of Kosovo, "we need to have a realistic, rational and responsible approach, look to the future, and succeeding in making the most of what we can do."

The EULEX mission said on its Facebook page on Wednesday that it had organized a meeting of the Kosovo and Serbia police to discuss the investigation into the killing of Kosovo Serb political leader Oliver Ivanovic.

The KoSSev portal said that the Facebook post was put up a day after the meeting without providing details of the meeting or its venue.