In his report, Pocar highlighted the measures being taken to ensure that trials were more effective, while del Ponte severely criticised Serbia for failure to arrest and hand over Bosnian Serb wartime military commander Ratko Mladic and another three fugitives from the tribunal -- Goran Hadzic, Stojan Zupljanin and General Zdravko Tolimir.
Pocar informed the Security Council of the tribunal's work since his last report six months ago, focusing on specific steps being taken with a view to completing all the trials in 2009 as part of the exit strategy.
The ICTY president urged all the states to fully cooperate with the tribunal so that it could carry out its mandate and called on the international community to support it and secure funds for the development of judicial and detention capacities in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, particularly for the Bosnian State Court.
Del Ponte blamed the failure to arrest Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic on Serbia, the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, EUFOR and NATO, and criticised Russia for failing to arrest General Vlastimir Djordjevic.
The chief prosecutor said that Serbian authorities kept promising her that Mladic would be arrested soon and that they were tightening the noose around him. She added that in 2005 they did not even try to arrest him but just to force him to surrender, noting that they had success lately in dealing with the network of his supporters.
Del Ponte said that progress in providing access to state archives in Serbia was encouraging.
She also highlighted improved cooperation between her office and the Bosnian Serb authorities in Banja Luka and the continuation of good cooperation with Montenegro.
The chief prosecutor did not mention Croatia in her report.