Del Ponte's political advisor Anton Nikiforov told a news conference in The Hague on Wednesday that in her report on Belgrade's cooperation, the tribunal's chief prosecutor would be critical given that Belgrade was shunning providing the Prosecutor's Office with documents which it asked for the case of the fugitive indictee, the war-time Bosnian Serb military leader, Ratko Mladic.
We are not satisfied with documents from Belgrade, Instead of providing information about Mladic, the documents contain many blank pages. Something else must certainly exist in those documents, Nkiforov told reporters.
For instance, Mladic's personal files do not include data on where Mladic received salaries although it is well known that officers of the Republika Srpska during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina were paid through the so-called 30th personnel department of the Yugoslav Army in Belgrade.
Nikiforov also cited other examples of missing or blank pages.
The chairman of Serbia-Montenegro's council for the cooperation with the U.N. tribunal Rasim Ljajic said on Wednesday that original files pertaining to the Mladic case would be sent to the office of the UN tribunal in Belgrade in the course of the day.
Alongside with Del Ponte, the ICTY President, Judge Fausto Pocar, will also submit a report to the UN Security Council in New York on Thursday.