Serbia has met one of its key obligations to the U.N. tribunal for the former Yugoslavia by arresting Bosnian Serb wartime military commander Ratko Mladic, Reuters quoted the court's chief prosecutor as saying on Monday. But the prosecutor, Serge Brammertz, told the U.N. Security Council that Belgrade still faced "troubling questions" about why war-crimes suspect Mladic was able to remain at large for so long. Cooperation with the tribunal is crucial to Serbia's prospects for joining the European Union. Mladic, branded the "butcher of the Balkans" for his role in Bosnia's 1992-95 ethnic war, was arrested in Serbia on May 26 after 16 years on the run. He was sent to the Hague, where he made his first appearance before the war crimes tribunal last Friday. -- SPA
