MontenegrowoncandidatestatuslastDecember; Serbiahopes to follow this December (its chances were boosted onJuly20th with the arrestof GoranHadzic, a war-crimes suspect).
Serbia's path to becoming an EU candidate was given a boost last year when two major war crimes suspects - former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic and former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic - were arrested.
We offered our full support to the Government of Serbia as it successfully pursued the final remaining fugitives from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, who were apprehended this year.