"Ljajić to quit if Mladić not caught by year's end"

Chairman of the National Council for Cooperation Rasim Ljajic says he will resign if Ratko Mladic is not arrested by the end of the year. “I will resign as Coordinator of the Action Team for the location and arrest of Hague indictees if, by December 31, 2009, Ratko Mladic is not arrested and extradited to The Hague Tribunal,” Ljajic stated. "Ljajic to quit if Mladic not caught by year's end" In an interview published by Belgrade daily Blic on Thursday, he said that if Mladic was not extradited to the Hague Tribunal by the end of the year, as War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic promised earlier, it would be his own misjudgment for which he should have to “suffer the consequences.” When asked why he thought that Mladic would be arrested by the end of the year, Ljajic said that his belief "is based on information on activities being undertaken towards Mladic's arrest, the coordinated work of our departments and the operation as a whole." "That is what our optimism is based on," he underscored. Rasim Ljajic (Tanjug, archive)

"Ljajić to quit if Mladić not caught by year's end"

In an interview published by Belgrade daily Blic on Thursday, he said that if Mladic was not extradited to the Hague Tribunal by the end of the year, as War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic promised earlier, it would be his own misjudgment for which he should have to “suffer the consequences.”

When asked why he thought that Mladić would be arrested by the end of the year, Ljajić said that his belief "is based on information on activities being undertaken towards Mladić's arrest, the coordinated work of our departments and the operation as a whole."

"That is what our optimism is based on," he underscored.