A lawyer for General Ratko Mladic has said it is not certain the former Bosnian Serb military commander will appear in a United Nations courtroom when judges deliver their verdicts in his long-running trial for allegedly masterminding atrocities during Bosnia's 1992-95 war.

FORMER Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic insisted yesterday he did everything possible to avoid conflict and hispeople were victims of Muslim aggression as he ended a boycott of his genocide trial.

The genocide trial of Radovan Karadzic has resumed in The Hague.

The United Nations’ highest court today exonerated Serbia of direct responsibility for, or complicity in, genocide during the 1992/95 Bosnia war, but did rule that Serbia failed to prevent the mass slaughter of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica.