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| 18.11.200915:05 (GMT) | The Belgrade newspaper Press yesterday published an article, according to which the US CIA has made a secret report intended for the Netherlands government, in which it alleges that General Ratko Mladic is not in Serbia. The paper refers to "perfectly informed diplomatic sources". The Netherlands is the only of the European Union member-countries which has stipulated that capture and delivery to the Hague of the fugitive General is a condition for renewal of process of accession of Serbia to the EU.
According to the Press, it is underlined in the CIA report that "Ratko Mladic is not within reach of the Serbian secret services", which lastyears have been doing everything to find the fugitive, however, all specifies that the General is under protection of one of foreign intelligence services which does not allow to arrest it, and even probably keeps him in a secret shelter outside Serbia. The interlocutor of the newspaper from the western diplomatic circles has told that no particular intelligence agency is named in the CIA report, but it is known for a long time among experts that Americans suspect Russia of rendering assistance and protection to General Mladic.In the CIA report it is ostensibly emphasized that Serbia after change of government in 2008 has done "absolutely everything" to find and seize Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, however, they "are not within reach of bodies of the Serbian government".
Today the Belgrade daily Blic has published an article on the new report to the UN Security Council on cooperation between Serbia and the Hague Tribunal, written by the Chief prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal, Serge Brammertz. He marks that for the first time he is ‘satisfied with the present degree of cooperation by Serbia with the Tribunal’ and that he expects that the war crimes suspects Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic shall be extradited to the ICTY, according to Blic.
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