(26 Oct 2007)
1. Exterior of the Serbian Presidency building
2. Various of chief UN war crimes prosecutor for former Yugoslavia, Carla Del Ponte (right) and associates, sitting opposite Serbian President, Boris Tadic holding meeting
3. Woman closing door where meeting is taking place
4. Wide exterior of Serbian government building
5. Various of del Ponte meeting with Serbian Prime Minister, Vojislav Kostunica
6. Del Ponte arriving at the former Federal assembly
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Carla Del Ponte, chief UN war crimes prosecutor:
"I am asking Serbia to do all they can to apprehend Mladic (referring to former Bosnian Serb military chief General Ratko Mladic), because I know he is here."
8. Wide of hall
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Carla Del Ponte, chief UN war crimes prosecutor:
"I am a prosecutor from the ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia). I am not doing politics, I am a prosecutor. I have a precise mandate from Security Council. I have 161 accused. I was able to obtain 91 accused transferred to The Hague. I have only 4 accused at large, do you think that it is in my function to ask that these 4 fugitives are arrested? That is my duty, that is my function and I am not caring about to whom I am asking that but I am asking Belgrade to give me Mladic, to find him and to give me Mladic, and the others, also."
10. Camera operators at back of hall
STORYLINE
A UN war crimes prosecutor on Friday demanded more action from Serbia in hunting down General Ratko Mladic and other fugitives - a key condition for the country's integration into the European Union (EU).
Speaking at the end of a fact-finding mission in Belgrade, designed to assess the Balkan country's cooperation with her Netherlands-based court, Carla Del Ponte said she was "asking Serbia to do all they can to apprehend Mladic because I know he is here."
"I am not caring about to whom I am asking that but I am asking Belgrade to give me Mladic, to find him and to give me Mladic, and the others, also," she said.
Serbian officials met with del Ponte on Friday in an attempt to assure her that they are serious about catching Mladic and the three other fugitives.
Earlier this month she told European Union foreign ministers that Serbia was still unwilling to arrest Mladic.
Mladic, a former Bosnian Serb army commander, and ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, are the top suspects sought on genocide charges for orchestrating a 1995 massacre of 8-thousand Muslims from Srebrenica and the siege of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo - the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II.
Also wanted are two more Serb fugitives from the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
Before Del Ponte's visit, Serbian officials said they have intensified their search for the four suspects wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, based in The Hague, Netherlands.
On Friday Del Ponte met with Serbian President Boris Tadic before talks with Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica.
Tadic said in a statement that Serbia is "doing all it can" to hunt down the suspects, while Serbian "institutions are working daily" to find and arrest the fugitives.
Kostunica also said in a separate statement that "there is determination and political will to fully wrap up cooperation" with the tribunal in The Hague.
The issue of Serbia's cooperation with the tribunal is of critical importance in its efforts to join the European Union, because the initialling of a key agreement in the process depends on Del Ponte's mission.
After her fact-finding visit to Belgrade, del Ponte is to brief European Union officials.

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