The level of cooperation with Croatia is satisfying, del Ponte said. My office, in cooperation with the Croatian authorities, has managed to solve certain problems that we encountered in the preparations for the trial of Ante Gotovina and other indictees in that case, the outgoing ICTY chief prosecutor said.
Del Ponte said she hoped the Croatian government would commit itself to efficiently solving the problems in cooperation in pre-trail and trial phases in the future.
She emphasised the need for OSCE to keep monitoring war crimes trial before national judiciaries, notably in Croatia.
The prosecutor hailed the recent arrest of Zdravko Tolimir and Vlastimir Djordjevic and said that there was general progress in Serbia's cooperation with the UN war crimes court in The Hague and that the country was committed to continue cooperating.
ICTY President Fausto Pocar said in his report to the Security Council that he hoped that the trial of Croatian generals Rahim Ademi and Mirko Norac, that started before the Zagreb County Court on Monday, would proceed quickly.
He also called for the arrest of Ratko Mladic, Radovan Karadzic and two other ICTY fugitives, stressing that should they get arrested, their trial could end by the end of 2009 and appeals processes by the end of 2010, in accordance with the ICTY exit strategy.