In the best interest of Serbia is that killers of Oliver Ivanovic are found as soon as possible, and from the moment when Kosovo authorities said that they are ready to cooperate, weeks have passed before the actual exchange of information occurred, said Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic, reports Belgrade based daily Blic.
One month after the murder of Oliver Ivanovic, the Basic Court in Kosovska Mitrovica has formally ended the case where he stood accused of war crimes.
According to RTS - which cited the Pristina-based website Kallxo - the court decided to dismiss the indictment for war crimes against Ivanovic, a Serb politician from northern Kosovo.
Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric says that it is good that cooperation between Serbian and Kosovo institutions has occurred in the investigation of the murder of Oliver Ivanovic, Belgrade based daily Blic reports.
Director of NGO "Human Center Mitrovica" Veroljub Petronic thinks that the arrest of two members of the Kosovo Police, suspected of manipulating with the evidence, will not lead to the clarification of the murder of Oliver Ivanovic, reports Kontakt plus radio.
- After documentation was submitted to the Ministry of Justice of the Government of Serbia regarding the murder of Oliver Ivanovic, the president of the Civic Initiative SDP, Belgrade can initiate its own proceedings - check, supplement or challenge the findings from Pristina.
More than three weeks have passed since the murder of Oliver Ivanovic, leader of Civic Initiative, Freedom, Democracy, Justice, and apart from political statements, there are still no details as to who and with what motives shot at him on January 16, TV N1 writes today on its website.
Kosovo Justice Ministry claims they exchange information with the Serbian authorities, while the Serbian Ministry of Justice said they received no information at all.
Who is mediating in this exchange, did and where the communication fail? TV N1 wonders.
UNMIK Head, Zahir Tanin assessed yesterday as concerning attempts from the part of Kosovo authorities to revoke Special Court for KLA war crimes, murder of Oliver Ivanovic and the fact that the Brussels agreement is not fully implemented, in particular when it comes to the establishment of the Association of Serb Municipalities, Serbian media report today.
Addressing Security Council members Tanin said that establishment of the Special Court represented a major step for Kosovo.
Chairperson of the Serbian Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun told Serbian media he does not believe Pristina would resolve the murder of Oliver Ivanovic.
Drecun said he does not believe Pristina “would come out with real information” which, according to him would close the room for speculations.
He also commented on the statement of the Kosovo President Hashim Thaci that the murder is not ethnically motivated, saying Thaci could say something like that only after the investigation is concluded, Serbian media reported.
The party led by murdered Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic claimed that Kosovo police have “obviously no will” to find the killers because no information about the investigation has been revealed.
Ksenija Bozovic, the spokesperson for the Freedom, Democracy, Justice party, criticized Kosovo police on Tuesday for allegedly not revealing any details about the investigation into the murder last month of the party’s leader, Oliver Ivanovic.
Belgrade received not a single information related to the Ivanovic murder probe, Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Director, Marko Djuric told Serbian media.
Commenting on the claims from the prosecution office in Mitrovica that they are ready to cooperate with Belgrade and they have sent information from the investigation to it, Djuric said he has contacted representative of all state bodies and they confirmed that they received nothing from Pristina, Tanjug news agency reported.