The newspaper said that "the arrest of (Croatian Army General) Ante Gotovina and the handover of the missing files are just a prelude to what will happen in the coming days."
Aleksandar Simic, an adviser to Serbian Premier Vojislav Kostunica, told the newspaper that he hoped that the state union of Serbia and Montenegro would "have equal treatment like other countries, including Croatia."
Simic recalled that Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte had positively assessed Croatia's cooperation with the tribunal in October, months before Gotovina was arrested, and that Serbia would not suffer sanctions in case the set deadlines were moved.
The Serbian government has seriously devoted itself to arresting Ratko Mladic by actively checking his possible supporters, but Serbia does not have the resources to arrest him and needs help from intelligence services in the region, he said.
Simic congratulated Croatia on arresting Gotovina, saying that it "resolved a major problem with the international community and turned a new page."
Last week, del Ponte warned the authorities in Belgrade that they had a week to arrest Mladic before she submits a report on the country's cooperation with the tribunal to the UN Security Council on 15 December.