SALZBURG, July 27: The arrest of Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic showed Belgrade’s willingness to recognise its international obligations, and more arrests could follow, the Serbian prime minister said on Sunday.

Karadzic, twice indicted by the UN court in The Hague for orchestrating genocide during the 1992-95 Bosnia war, was arrested recently after more than a decade on the run.

Serbia’s bid to join the European Union had been held up by its failure to comply with demands by the Hague court to hand over Karadzic and other war crimes suspects.

“The arrest of Karadzic was in a way the proof that there is a willingness to cooperate with the (UN) tribunal and we believe that cooperation with the tribunal will be essential for our country,” Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic told reporters ahead of an annual meeting of the region’s prime ministers.—Reuters