"When it comes to general Gotovina, his lawyers asked that certain documentation be forwarded to them by 30 September. This request is being processed and we will respond to it in a timely fashion. Among other things, we must check if we are in the possession of the wanted documents," Ljajic said.

Ljajic stressed that at this moment the Serbian National Council had no outstanding issues with or unsolved request from the ICTY Prosecutor's Office, adding that request submitted by defence teams were treated the same way.

The defence team for Gotovina earlier this week filed with the ICTY a renewed application for an order instructing Serbia to produce documents which show that the reason for the mass departure of local Serbs during the August 1995 Operation Storm were not artillery attacks by Croatian forces, as established by the trial chamber, but a decision on departure made by wartime Croatian Serb rebel leaders.

This July the ICTY appeals chamber dismissed the first application of this kind forwarded by Gotovina's lawyers, explaining that it holds that Belgrade should be given more time to voluntarily meet the requests from the defence team of the Croatian general.

Gotovina's lawyers submitted two letters to the Ambassador of Serbia to The Netherlands, on 30 May and 16 June 2011, respectively, requesting the documents which are the subject of the application, however, no response came from the Serbian authorities which was why on 21 June, the defence team filed the first application asking the appeals chamber to order the authorities in Belgrade to provide the defence team with the requested transcripts.

On 15 April the ICTY trial chamber sentenced General Gotovina to 24 years and General Mladen Markac to 18 years for their participation in a joint criminal enterprise the aim of which was to forcibly and permanently remove the Serb population from Croatian areas previously held by Serb rebels.

On 1 August both defence teams filed their appeal briefs.