The chairman of Serbia's National Council for cooperation with the Hague war crimes tribunal and coordinator of an action team in charge of locating Hague tribunal indictees, Rasim Ljajic, on Tuesday tendered his resignation as coordinator of the action team.
At the beginning of this year, Ljajic said that Hague indictee Ratko Mladicwould be in The Hague by the end of 2009. In late September, he said that hewould resign if Mladic was not arrested by the end of the year, according tothe Belgrade media.
In a written statement for the media, Ljajic said that he would continueperforming his duties as chairman of the National Council for cooperation withthe Hague tribunal.
In a letter to Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic, Ljajic said that he believedin the work of the action team in charge of locating fugitives from the Haguetribunal.
Ratko Mladic, the war-time Bosnian Serb army commander, is charged with warcrimes and crimes against humanity, including genocide. He is charged togetherwith former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic with a massacre of8,000 Muslims in the eastern Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica in 1995 and with a43-month siege of the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo.
