The head of the Serbian government's commission for accession to the European Union, Tanja Miscevic, also said that the Union was waiting for a political decision on the matter.
Belgrade's electronic media today highlighted Slovene Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel's statement that the EU would not demand Mladic's extradition as a condition for resuming negotiations on a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with Serbia.
Miscevic told Beta news agency that more would be known next week, when an EU troika is expected to visit Belgrade -- German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, European Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner and European Union High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana. The talks are expected to address Serbia's European prospects and the future status of Kosovo.
The EU suspended SAA negotiations with Belgrade last May over incomplete cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
The UN court's two most wanted fugitives, Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, might be free unless they were arrested before the the Hague tribunal closed its doors in 2010 and unless the Security Council took further steps, chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte was quoted by Associated Press as saying on Tuesday.
She also said she believed that secret services knew Mladic's whereabouts.