Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced Belgrade and Pristina will exchange information about the murder of Kosovo-Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic during an official visit to Kosovo on Saturday.

After meeting local Serb leaders in the ethnic Serb-majority north of Kosovo, Vucic described solving Ivanovic�s murder as the �key� to dispelling anxiety and fear among the local ethnic Serb population, adding that there will be �no mercy� for those responsible.

�To us, the nationality of the killer is unimportant,� Vucic told the media during a press conference held after a three-hour meeting with Serb politicians in the northern municipality of Mitrovica. Mitrovica is split, with the south being mainly ethnic Albanian.

Before he started speaking, a group of people shouted at him in Serbian, calling on him to protect the population.

�President, help us all! We are all targeted, we are guilty of being Serbs,� a man was heard shouting, before his group was removed from the building.

Vucic�s Kosovo visit aims to reduce tensions among local Serbs following the killing of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic on Tuesday.

The well-known politician was gunned down in front of his party�s office in Mitrovica. Investigators are yet to reveal the motive for his killing.

The Serbian president kicked off his visit at the Banjska Monastery, where he was greeted by a crowd of around a thousand people.

There he told members of the media that Belgrade and Pristina will exchange information in Ivanovic�s murder investigation, despite Kosovo rejecting Serbia�s request to participate in the investigation.

From there Vucic went to the city of Mitrovica where he laid a wreath at the scene of Oliver Ivanovic�s murder.

(Source: BIRN)