UN prosecutor Serbia help still insufficient

LUXEMBOURG, Oct 15 (Reuters) The chief UN war crimes prosecutor said today that Serbia's cooperation with her tribunal had improved somewhat in the last year but was still insufficient.

''I confirm that the situation today is better than it was a year ago. However, cooperation is still too slow and not yet sufficient,'' Carla Del Ponte said in a written briefing delivered at a meeting with EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.

''I cannot give a positive assessment of full cooperation until Ratko Mladic is arrested and transferred to the Hague,'' she said in a reference to the former Bosnian Serb military commander believed to be hiding in Serbia.

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