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Wednesday April 5, 2:42 PM
Belgrade-EU talks to restart after Serbian vow to arrest Mladic
Belgrade will resume talks on closer ties with the European Union after Serbia's prime minister pledged to capture genocide suspect Ratko Mladic by the end of the month.
Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica gave Brussels a firm commitment last week that Serbia would "locate, arrest and transfer" the former Bosnian Serb military commander, staving off the EU's threatened suspension of the talks.
Serbia and its federal partner Montenegro began talks in October last year on an EU stabilisation and association agreement (SAA) -- the first step on the long road to joining the 25-member bloc.
The country's bid for European integration hinges on its cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal, which indicted Mladic more than a decade ago for genocide and other crimes committed during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war.
EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn kept the pressure on Belgrade on the eve of the renewed talks. "We expect Kostunica will stick to his commitment of doing his utmost to arrest Ratko Mladic," he said.
"We have always the possibility of suspending negotiations if cooperation does not reach its full level," he told the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.
According to the office of Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labus, who heads the Serbian talks team, Wednesday's negotiations in Belgrade would focus on technical subjects including the freedom of movement of labour.
"The questions of visas, asylum seekers and illegal immigration will not be discussed on Wednesday, but will be the subject of talks in May, provided that certain obligations are fulfilled," the office's spokeswoman, Ana Markovic, told AFP in a clear reference to Mladic.
Earlier this week, a Serbian minister said Belgrade was half-way towards completing the SAA talks, and that it hoped to join the European Union by 2012.
"Eastern European nations started discussions last decade, and we are starting in 2006, while all those countries had the goal of entering the EU by 2000, but did not do so until 2004. Our goal will be 2012," said Dusko Lopandic, the deputy foreign economic relations minister.
Serbia has persistently denied knowledge of Mladic's whereabouts, although it recently admitted he had been under military protection until mid-2002 and received a pension from Belgrade until last December.
The EU standoff with Belgrade echoes the brinkmanship last year between the EU and Croatia, which saw the start of its EU entry talks delayed for seven months due to lack of progress in finding fugitive general Ante Gotovina.
In that case Zagreb's talks eventually began in October despite failure to find Gotovina -- although he was eventually arrested on a Spanish island and transferred to the ICTY in The Hague in December.
A rash of reports in February suggested that Mladic -- who, like Gotovina, remains a hero to many nationalists in his homeland -- was on the point of being captured, or turning himself in.
Those turned out to be false, and few are willing to say if anything will come of the latest indications that his capture may be near.
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