Official: Serbia making every effort to arrest Mladic

Serbia has until the end of the month to capture fugitive war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, or it could face European Union sanctions, the foreign minister said today.

Seeking to keep up the pressure, the EU renewed threats to freeze negotiations on the Balkan country’s possible membership in the bloc unless the Bosnian Serb wartime commander was delivered to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.