"It is clear that all three countries continue to fail to honour their international obligations to cooperate fully with the tribunal, in particular in respect of fugitive indictees, notably Karadzic, Mladic and Gotovina," MacShane said in a statement which was faxed to Hina by the British Embassy in Zagreb on Wednesday.
The statement came a day after Del Ponte submitted a report to the UN Security Council on the cooperation of the countries of the former Yugoslavia with the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague.
The chief prosecutor said in her report on Tuesday that Croatian army general Ante Gotovina, who has been on the run since June 2001, had been seen in Croatia last summer. She said that Gotovina enjoyed the status of a hero in the Croatian public and that there was a strong network of his supporters in Croatia.
The British minister urged the governments of the three countries to dispel the chief prosecutor's doubts about their commitment to full cooperation with the tribunal, and recalled that the EU and NATO had made clear that full cooperation with the tribunal was a prerequisite of integration with Euro-Atlantic structures. "Failure to do so will clearly have implications."
"As we approach the tenth anniversary of the massacre at Srebrenica, it is imperative that those who stand accused of these serious crimes in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia are brought to justice," the statement said.