This (Hadzic case) is currently in the pre-trial stage and the trial should commence on 16 October 2012, Brammertz said, according to Monday's issue of the Sarajevo-based daily newspaper.
He confirmed that upon Hadzic's arrest in July this year in Serbia, after he had been on the run for years, the ICTY office of prosecutors had difficulties due to a lack of funds.
Upon his arrest our team was beefed up by the staff engaged in other cases. They are still working on two cases, Brammertz said, adding that this situation would change for the better as soon as the budget for the UN tribunal in The Hague was approved for the next two years.
The new budget will have funds allocated for jurists working separately on the Hadzic case and on the case of the wartime Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, who was arrested in Serbia in May this year.
The exact date of the commencement of the Mladic trial is not yet defined and it is up to the trial chamber, the chief prosecutor said adding that not any date was "engraved in stone", although the prosecution had expected to give the opening statement on 27 March 2012.
The arrest of Ratko Mladic was 15 years late, however, the prosecution is ready to be expedient in this case and begin the trial whenever the trial chamber decides, he said.
He expressed hope that the 11-count indictment against Mladic, accused of the gravest war crimes including genocide, would result in a guilty verdict.