DW: Keep Serbia out of the EU - Serbia's EU Bid Hinges on Mladic Arrest, Says del Ponte
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Keep Serbia out of the EU - Serbia's EU Bid Hinges on Mladic Arrest, Says del Ponte
If Belgrade hasn't handed over fugitive General Ratko Mladic by Monday, chief UN War Crimes Prosecutor Carla del Ponte says the EU should refuse to sign Serbia's membership proposal. Del Ponte, whose eight year mandate ends on January 1, said Mladic would only be caught if the EU made his arrest a condition for signing a partnership pact with Serbia. Serbia's path to closer ties with the European Union has been consistently blocked by its failure to arrest four war crimes suspects including Mladic.
Del Ponte argued that if the EU signed a partnership accord before their arrest, "it will weaken the real (Serbian) intention to give us the fugitives".
