MITROVICA, Kosovo — Serbia's leader on Saturday swore to help fabricate an enduring peace in Kosovo days after the killing this seven day stretch of a direct Kosovo Serb government official energized fears of flimsiness in the Balkans.
In the midst of tight security, Aleksandar Vucic touched base for a two-day visit that authorities said was intended to ease worries among Kosovo's Serbs following the killing Tuesday of one of their driving lawmakers, Oliver Ivanovic.
Waving Serbian banners, several individuals cheered Vucic as he touched base in the Serb-commanded, northern piece of the previous Serbian territory that announced autonomy in 2008. Serbia has declined to perceive the statehood of the dominant part ethnic Albanian Kosovo and keeps up solid impact in Serb-populated regions, generally in the north.
Upon landing, Vucic first went to an Orthodox Serbian religious community before laying a wreath at the site of the assault on Ivanovic in the separated town of Mitrovica.
"Serbia needs peace, as well as will do its best to save it," Vucic said in Banjska. "We will do everything we can to illuminate decades-and hundreds of years old question, to secure an enduring peace and security for every (ethnic) Albanian and Serbian family."
Under EU intervention, Serbia and Kosovo have opened chats on normalizing relations with a specific end goal to progress in endeavors to join the European Union. The discussions were because of resume this week, yet were suspended after Ivanovic was gunned down in Mitrovica.
Ivanovic was an uncommon voice of resilience in the midst of tenacious ethnic strains in Kosovo, almost two decades after the 1998-99 war.
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