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Europe
Mladic surrender deadline passes...
2006-05-02
...and the EU gets out the "We Really Mean It This Time" stationery...
A European Union deadline for Serbia to surrender war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has expired. The failure to hand him over means Serbia faces the prospect of a suspension of its pre-membership talks with the EU. Despite missing the deadline, Serbian officials have vowed to keep hunting the Bosnian Serb commander.

Mladic was indicted by the UN court for genocide over the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica. Rasim Ljajic, the Serbian official responsible for coordinating efforts with the UN tribunal, said if Mladic was not handed over, "It is very possible the talks will be suspended." He said the country's government would "continue cooperating" with the UN war crimes tribunal and eventually deliver the suspect to The Hague.

The EU gave the Serbian government until April 30 to hand Mladic over or risk suspension of the next round of talks over membership. After a previous deadline expired on March 31, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica pledged to deliver Mladic. He promised chief UN war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte that "we'll have work for you Real Soon Now. Can you ring up Ramsay Clark and see if he's free?" Serbian authorities were doing all they could to track him down.
They might really do it this time; since Slobo kicked off Carla's been looking for work ...
But "no one is in a position at this moment to say when Mladic will be extradited," Mr Ljajic told the local Blic newspaper. "Daily operations are taking place to find him and ... we have come a long way." Discussions will now take place as to whether the next round of talks, scheduled for May 11, will take place.
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