Serbia must arrest all suspects indicted by the prosecution of the International Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) before the European Union can sign any association treaty with Belgrade, Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen said Wednesday, according to dpa. Quoted in a news report by Dutch news wire ANP, Verhagen said there can only be a rapprochement between the EU and Serbia when all suspects have appeared before the ICTY. Verhagen emphasized he was "very pleased" that former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had arrived in the UN detention center in Scheveningen, near The Hague. "It is fabulous the Serbian government undertook this step. The fact that Karadzic will be brought before the International Tribunal for former Yugoslavia is of immense importance to victims and their families," he said. "I encourage the authorities in Belgrade to arrest also the other suspects, particularly Ratko Mladic, and transfer them to the internatonal tribunal in The Hague," Verhagen said, referring to the former commander of the Bosnian Serb army.
