Karadzic said in a submission to the court on Monday that the son of the late president of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman, was in possession of evidence showing that weapons smuggled from Iran and other Muslim countries had been delivered to the Bosnian Muslim army through the agency of Croatia during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.

As a former director of the Croatian intelligence service, Tudjman is the most qualified person that can reveal which existing documents relate to the former agreement with Iran on arms deliveries to the Bosnian Muslims, Karadzic said, warning that Tudjman had refused to answer questions from his attorney.

Karadzic, who asked the tribunal to make it possible for his attorney to question Tudjman in Zagreb on October 15, insisted that the United States and other UN members had been aware that weapons had been smuggled into Bosnia and Herzegovina in humanitarian convoys.

Karadzic said that one of the charges against him was that he had obstructed the delivery of humanitarian aid to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The deposition of Miroslav Tudjman may easily show that the Bosnian Serbs had good reason to be concerned about those convoys, he said.

Karadzic said that weapons had also been secretly shipped into the eastern, UN-protected Muslim enclaves of Srebrenica and Zepa, which he added had forced him to take action against them to stop attacks on Serb villages in the area.