I have received assurances from the Serbian authorities that cooperation with the tribunal will be implemented, but I need results, del Ponte told reporters after meeting Defence Minister Zoran Stankovic.
The prosecutor specified that six war crimes indictees from Serbia were still at large and that no indictees had been transferred to The Hague since April 2004. She made no specific reference to Bosnian Serb wartime military commander Ratko Mladic, who is believed to be hiding in Serbia and Montenegro.
We have presented to the chief prosecutor the results of our investigation of the network of people helping the fugitives, and I believe it gives hope that we will achieve satisfactory cooperation, Stankovic said.
Del Ponte also met Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, the Minister for Human and Minority Rights and President of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, Rasim Ljajic, and War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic.
A statement from the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal said that del Ponte would urge the European Union to suspend talks on a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Serbia and Montenegro unless it fully cooperated with the tribunal, which implies the arrest and transfer of Ratko Mladic to The Hague.