"Mladić support network small"

"Mladić support network small"

Ljajić said that security services were working day and night to locate Mladić, and that tips he might be hiding in the Mt Cer region or in Belgrade had come from Serbian security services.

“It is obvious that the Hague fugitives are hiding and moving from one country in the region to another,” he said.

Asked whether the authorities were conducting indirect negotiations on voluntary surrender of Mladić, Ljajić categorically denied any such possibility, stressing that no one believed he might surrender on his own.

According to Ljajić, Serbia appreciated assistance of foreign security services, stressing however that recent events showed Serbia had to fall back on its own agencies, and the cooperation and coordination of intelligence agencies in the region as well.

Commenting on activities of the Serbian Army in relation with the ongoing search for Hague fugitives, Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac said every action the Army carried out so far in order to achieve full cooperation with the Tribunal was "in accordance with the law and assumed responsibilities."

He said that those activities primarily pertained to preventing possibility that any active army officer might provide assistance to the runaway indictees, and conducting inspections of military facilities that might be used as potential hideouts.