Hague tribunal Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz reported to European Union foreign ministers on Dec. 14 in Brussels that cooperation between the tribunal and the Serbian and Croatian governments had improved, but that there were still significant problems.

Brammertz, according to officials at the EU ministerial meeting, more or less repeated what he had said in his report to the United Nations Security Council on Dec. 6.

Brammertz said that the final two remaining Hague indictees had to be arrested, that the Serbian government was not searching hard enough and that the Croatian Operation Storm "artillery diaries" were still being awaited from Zagreb.

What the Hague prosecutor told the European ministers "was not exactly full of optimism," one official who followed the session told BETA. Brammertz was of the opinion that the government in Belgrade was not implementing enough of the Hague tribunal's June recommendations on improving operative procedures in the searches.