The next report on Serbia's cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia will be unfavorable unless there are improvements, ICTY Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz told European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, according to an article published in the Politika daily, which cites sources in Brussels.

The Jan. 22 edition of Politika quoted unnamed sources as saying that Brammertz had listed a number of specific objections that have to do with the Serbian agencies charged with searching for the last two suspects wanted by the court - Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic.

Politika learned from the ICTY chief prosecutor's office that the search for the last two fugitives was still ridden with problems, and that Serbia was expected to step up its efforts to locate and arrest them.

A source in Brussels said that the speed of the search and the small number of persons involved in these efforts were still a major hindrance, because it made a comprehensive and simultaneous search of multiple locations impossible.

Brammertz went on to say that, at times, it took as long as two months for investigators to respond to reported sitings, giving the suspects more than an enough time to escape to safety, the source said.