"Such a list absolutely does not exist. There are a couple of individual cases that may be interesting to our prosecutors, but we will deal with those together with the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Croatia," spokesman for the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor's Office Bruno Vekaric said.

He added that those cases would be dealt with either by their being referred to the country where the perpetrators lived or by providing other evidence.

Vekaric said that the case of the recent arrest of Croatian war veteran Tihomir Purda belonged to a group of so-called "military cases" dating from the early 1990s.

Vekaric said that the War Crimes Prosecutor's Office "absolutely wants to relax the situation" with regard to those arrest warrants and that it expected that a joint working group that would analyse the cases in question would help clear up the misunderstandings.

Serbian Justice Minister Snezana Malovic said on Sunday she had talked to her Croatian counterpart Drazen Bosnjakovic and that the two ministries would intensify their cooperation in identifying the cases in which arrest warrants had been issued.

"We agreed that all war crimes suspects must be prosecuted. It is important that they be tried, and both countries have so far shown their readiness to bring all war criminals to justice," Malovic told media.