Draskovic made the statement in an interview with the Belgrade daily Blic on Wednesday after returning from New York where he had attended the 60th session of the UN General Assembly.
"The whole world is talking about Mladic. I met more than 40 foreign ministers, prime ministers and heads of state in New York and they all started our meetings with questions about Mladic and warnings that he is the condition of all conditions for the EU, the Partnership for Peace and NATO, and even for the position on Kosovo," Draskovic said.
EU Enlargement Commissioner Ollie Rehn arrives in Belgrade on 10 October. "Unless we make things more complicated by ourselves, talks on stabilisation and association will start on condition that Mladic is transferred to The Hague within a very short period of time," the foreign minister said.
While Serbian government officials claim that there is no time limit for Mladic's handover and that he is not hiding in Serbia and Montenegro, Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte has recently said that Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica told her that Mladic would be handed over by 5 October. Belgrade, however, never confirmed this information.