BRUSSELS, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- EU foreign ministers say association talks with Serbia will resume as soon as Belgrade arrests Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic.
The European Union's foreign ministers Friday called on the Serbian government to intensify efforts to arrest and transfer Mladic to the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Serbia's RTS radio-television reported.
"The European Union is ready to resume negotiations with Serbia on stabilization and association as soon as Serbia achieves full cooperation with The Hague tribunal," RTS said, quoting a statement issued at the end of an EU ministerial meeting in Brussels.
The EU put off the talks with Serbia early in May, after Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica failed to keep his promise and hand over Mladic, sought by the tribunal on genocide and war crimes charges in the former Yugoslavia in 1991-95.
Mladic is accused of massacring 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in July 1995, and conducting a three-year siege and shelling of Sarajevo.
Mladic has been on the run since 1995.
