The last ICTY fugitive, former President of the Republic of Serb Krajina Goran Hadzic, has been arrested, Tanjug learned.

Serbian President Boris Tadic said in Belgrade on Tuesday, at an extraordinary press conference, that the remaining ICTY fugitive Goran Hadzic had been arrested early that day on Mt. Fruska Gora, northern Serbia.

Goran Hadzic was on the run for seven years, and the ICTY charges him with crime against humanity and violation of laws and customs of war.

Hadzic was a key figure in the breakaway Krajina Serb republic in Croatia, and after the arrest of wartime General Ratko Mladic earlier this year, he was Serbia's last remaining figure sought by the United Nations war crime tribunal in the Hague.

The European Union, which hailed Belgrade for finding Mladic in May, has continued to insist on the arrest of Hadzic for Serbia to make progress towards European Union membership.