"Much more known" on Mladić whereabouts

Rasim Ljajic says that the state now knows much more about Ratko Mladic’s hiding than several months ago. The head of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal told daily Vecernje novosti that all security services were making maximum effort in order to “complete” the job. "Much more known" on Mladic whereabouts Ljajic pointed out that he “has been burned” before trying to assess when the remaining Hague fugitives could be arrested and that he therefore did not wish to make any guesses now. “All the talk about the Hague fugitives is pointless until we arrest them. It’s no good saying ‘we’re getting closer’, ‘we’re getting farther’, ‘we’re more optimistic’ anymore,” he explained. When asked whether President Boris Tadic’s statement that it was only a matter of time when Mladic would be arrested meant that the authorities knew that he was in Serbia, Ljajic said that nobody knew exactly where Mladic was. “If we knew 100 percent where he was, it would be finished soon. We are acting as if he were in Serbia and we are conducting operations in accordance with that,” he pointed out. He also stressed that he expected the talks about reconstruction of the government to begin. The head of the National Council for Cooperation also said that he expected elections in the second half of 2012 because he did not see what could force early parliamentary elections. Rasim Ljajic (FoNet, file) Brammertz announces Belgrade visit Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Serge Brammertz will visit Serbia November 15, Special Adviser to the Prosecutor Frederick Swinnen told Tanjug on Thursday. Brammertz is going to visit Belgrade in preparations of his semiannual report on Serbia's cooperation with the Hague, which he is to present to the UN Security Council December 6.

"Much more known" on Mladić whereabouts

Ljajić pointed out that he “has been burned” before trying to assess when the remaining Hague fugitives could be arrested and that he therefore did not wish to make any guesses now.

“All the talk about the Hague fugitives is pointless until we arrest them. It’s no good saying ‘we’re getting closer’, ‘we’re getting farther’, ‘we’re more optimistic’ anymore,” he explained.

When asked whether President Boris Tadić’s statement that it was only a matter of time when Mladić would be arrested meant that the authorities knew that he was in Serbia, Ljajić said that nobody knew exactly where Mladić was.

“If we knew 100 percent where he was, it would be finished soon. We are acting as if he were in Serbia and we are conducting operations in accordance with that,” he pointed out.

He also stressed that he expected the talks about reconstruction of the government to begin.

The head of the National Council for Cooperation also said that he expected elections in the second half of 2012 because he did not see what could force early parliamentary elections.

Brammertz announces Belgrade visit

Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Serge Brammertz will visit Serbia November 15, Special Adviser to the Prosecutor Frederick Swinnen told Tanjug on Thursday.

Brammertz is going to visit Belgrade in preparations of his semiannual report on Serbia's cooperation with the Hague, which he is to present to the UN Security Council December 6.