Key party quits Serb government over Mladic

BELGRADE, Oct 1 (Reuters) A key party in Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica's minority coalition resigned its cabinet posts today and said its deputies would withdraw from parliament pending an early general election.

The liberal G17 Plus party, which runs finance, health and agriculture and holds the post of deputy prime minister, had warned it would quit if war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic was not arrested so that the European Union could unfreeze suspended talks with Serbia on its membership aspirations.

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