Also today, the foreign minister of Serbia and Montenegro, Vuk Draskovic, said Mladic is being protected by a security network loyal to former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
Meanwhile, Serbia's former secret service chief, Goran Petrovic, said the authorities' search for Mladic is "a farce and a circus."
The European Union suspended pre-membership talks with Serbia over Belgrade's failure to arrest Mladic and hand him over to the UN war crimes tribunal.
(Reuters, dpa)