Information on direct negotiations with Mladic and information that he is located in a town in the Serbian heartland are absolutely untrue.
Quotes about mladic (16 Quotes)
Yesterday and today, there were no special activities by the state authorities related to the Mladic case.
The news about Ratko Mladic is not correct. It is a manipulation which damages the government and does not contribute to its efforts to fully complete its cooperation with The Hague (war crimes tribunal.
It is now high time to complete the work, locate, arrest and transfer Ratko Mladic to The Hague without delay and if that is not the case in the next few days then we have no other option than to call off the next negotiation round.
Ratko Mladic is in Serbia. There is no doubt about this. He has been there since 1998. During all this time he has been and remains within reach of the Serbian authorities.
I have to say that in the case of Ratko Mladic we are waging a double battle -- with time and with the fact that the fugitive general is hiding himself very well.
The prosecutor expects that Serbia will live up to its promises given to her during her last visit in Belgrade and deliver Mladic before that date,
This may seem as an unrealistic demand, but believe me it is not. It is primarily a thing of political will, and as we all know political will is influenced by pressure from the outside. If the EU launched SAA negotiations on 5 October and Mladic was still at large, this would severely compromise any chance of that arrest happening in the near future. It could even be a 'pass' to lack of punishment.
The obvious conclusion is that I was misled when I was told at the end of March that the arrest of Mladic would be a matter of days or weeks.
The false rumors spread yesterday from Belgrade about the arrest of Mladic have absolutely no basis whatsoever.
My disappointment - my big disappointment - is because six fugitives are still at large, most probably in Serbia, and that includes, of course, Mladic,
I trust police and military reports that I am getting today that Mladic is somewhere between Bosnia and Serbia,
We certainly were given an impression (during my last visit in June) that the arrest of general Mladic was imminent and it did not happen, so we have to judge the Serb government on its actions,
I'm happy because I know that there is a full understanding on all levels about this question and that, before everything, the case of Ratko Mladic has to be closed in the shortest possible time and in the best interests of Serbia-Montenegro and its European path,
War in Bosnia was over some 13 years ago and yet war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic still live in Europe freely.
Mladic is in Serbia and, as you know, Mladic is protected by power of the army. What I need is an... obligation from Belgrade to arrest him and deliver him to The Hague.