At the status conference, which is held every 120 days, the parties discussed issues pertaining to the exchange of supporting material to the indictment, and agreed on undisputed issues. Judge Liu Daqun said he was informed that the prosecution had handed over 98 percent of the supporting material to the defence, and what remained to be presented to the defence were statements of some protected witnesses.
The status conference also focused on an investigation into an incident when Rajic and Tihomir Blaskic scuffled in the detention centre in Scheveningen in late May.
After the status conference, Rajic's lawyer Zeljko Olujic said that he had received an official report on the investigation into the 30 May Rajic-Blaskic row.
"The report reads that according to findings of the investigation launched by the detention centre's administration Blaskic was found guilty and was punished," Olujic said, adding that this presented "satisfaction for him and his client".
After the incident, the media carried contradictory statements by lawyers for the two indictees about who was responsible for the scuffle. After he was released from the tribunal's detention centre, Blaskic claimed that Rajic was the one who got the worst of it.
Rajic is charged with grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and violations of the laws and customs of war. The indictment, issued in 1995, alleges that troops commanded by Rajic massacred Muslim civilians in the central Bosnian village of Stupni Do in October 1993. The Croatian police arrested him in the southern coastal city of Split on 5 April 2003. Rajic pleaded not guilty to the charges at his initial appearance before the tribunal on 27 June 2003.