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European Union Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn urged the bloc last week to allow
But diplomats said ambassadors from the 27 EU states agreed to wait for Karadzic's transfer to the Hague tribunal and for U.N. war crimes prosecutor Serge Brammertz to report on whether Serbia was fully cooperating with the tribunal -- the condition for unblocking Belgrade's EU path.
An EU diplomat said envoys had agreed on these conditions last week and there had been no new element by the time of their meeting on Tuesday.
"Both are still lacking," he said after the ambassadors' last meeting before a month-long summer break.
Asked whether this meant the decision was postponed until September at the earliest, the diplomat said: "You could put it like that. It's postponed until we have those two elements."
He said he was not aware of any target date for Brammertz to report to the EU on
Karadzic's lawyer, Svetozar Vujacic, said he expected Serbian authorities to try to send his client to
EU foreign ministers last week called the arrest a milestone on Serbia's road to joining the EU, but several stressed that Karadzic's wartime military commander, Ratko Mladic, also wanted for genocide, was still at large and said Belgrade must go further to reap full benefits.
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Dutch Foreign Ministry spokesman Rob Dekker said the
"But we are still waiting for Radovan Karadzic's transfer to the Hague, the arrest of Mladic and Serbia still has to set up a witness protection program," he said.
"We are also waiting for Mr. Brammertz's position on
Karadzic and Mladic were indicted for genocide over the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which some 8,000 unarmed Bosnian Muslim males were murdered and bulldozed into mass graves.
The EU signed a long-delayed Stabilization and Association (SAA) pact with Serbia in April but vowed not to ratify it or unlock its trade benefits until all member states agreed that Belgrade was complying fully with the Hague tribunal.