"I want it to be the way Radovan decides, but I think he will never surrender," Ljiljana Zelen-Karadzic said in an interview with the Banja Luka-based Nezavisne Novine newspaper published on Friday.
"No one in the family can decide and tell him to get ready and go to The Hague," she added.
Zelen-Karadzic confirmed the existence of a deal between the former US peace envoy to the Balkans, Richard Holbrooke, and Radovan Karadzic as the Bosnian Serb president at the time.
"There is a deal between Radovan and Holbrooke, because there would have been no reason for Radovan to step down as president on June 30, 1996 if he had not reached an agreement with Holbrooke, that if he withdrew and if he did not give any interviews and did not appear in the public he would not be prosecuted by the Hague tribunal. That is the gist of their agreement," she said.
Zelen-Karadzic said she did not see the agreement on paper, but that her husband had told her about it.
"Some people said they had seen the piece of paper on which Radovan made the agreement with Holbrooke. According to those people, that document exists. I did not see it, but I know about it from Radovan. Radovan has been abiding by that agreement to this day," Zelen-Karadzic said.
Zelen-Karadzic said her husband did not recognise the Hague tribunal as a legal court and that he viewed it as a politicised institution conducting trials "mainly against Serbs".