He said this would be sufficient to continue negotiations with the European Union.
Ljajic did not wish to specify what kind of evidence would Serbia provide, stressing that the important thing was that Brussels and The Hague's confidence in Belgrade would be restored.
"Serbia's Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU cannot be concluded as long as Mladic is at large and there will be no changes to that," Ljajic said, adding that the decision to continue the negotiations would depend exclusively on the assessment of Carla del Ponte.
According to him, additional efforts must be made over the next month so as to provide the ICTY with evidence showing progress in the investigation aimed at locating Mladic as well as Serbia's further plans. Based on that, we will also provide an assessment stating when could Mladic be extradited to The Hague, Ljajic said adding, however, it was difficult to speculate whether some of the indictees would be in The Hague by mid-September.
Asked if government officials were negotiating with Mladic about his surrender, Ljajic answered in the negative, adding that "nobody believes in his surrender anymore".
He said del Ponte still insisted that Mladic was in Serbia, butstressed that he was not aware of Mladic's whereabouts.