BELGRADE, Serbia, June 28 (UPI) -- Serbia's deputy prime minister said Wednesday association talks with the European Union will resume in July.
In her talks with EU countries' ambassadors, Deputy Prime Minister Ivana Dulic-Markovic, said the continuation of the talks with the body is a top priority of the Belgrade government, Belgrade's Beta news agency reported.
Dulic-Markovic said Serbia is preparing an action plan which, with EU help, would complete cooperation with the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, meaning Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic would be arrested and extradited in July.
EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn has said Brussels will resume association talks with Belgrade the day Mladic is transferred to The Hague tribunal.
The EU cut off talks with Serbia early in May after Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica failed to keep his promise to arrest and transfer Mladic to The Hague.
Mladic is sought on genocide and crimes against humanity charges in the former Yugoslavia from 1991-95, including a 3-year siege by Serbian troops and shelling of Sarajevo and the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim boys and men at Srebrenica in July 1995.
