BRUSSELS, April 30, SPA -- BELGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER KAREL DE GUCHT WARNED SERBIA THAT FAILURE TO RESPONSE TO SUNDAY’S EUROPEAN UNION DEADLINE TO EXTRADITE WAR CRIMES FUGITIVE GEN. RATKO MLADIC TO THE U.N. WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL WILL RISK STALLING CLOSER TIES WITH THE REST OF EUROPE. DE GUCHT, CURRENT CHAIRMAN OF THE ORGANIZATION FORSECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE, SAID BELGRADE HAD TO DO EVERYTHING IT COULD TO FIND AND HAND OVER MLADIC. --SPA "MLADIC IS POPULAR AND THERE IS SUPPORT FOR HIM THERE,BUT WE HAVE TO PUT ADDED PRESSURE ON SERBIA TO HAND HIM OVER, OR AT LEAST SAY WHERE HE IS," DE GUCHT SAID ON VRT TELEVISION. EU ENLARGEMENT COMMISSIONER OLLI REHN IS EXPECTED TO MAKE A FORMAL DECISION ON WHETHER TO FREEZE TALKS ON A NEW AID-AND-TRADE PACT WITH SERBIA LATER THIS WEEK. ON FRIDAY REHN GAVE A LAST WARNING THAT HE WOULD SUSPEND THE NEXT ROUND OF NEGOTIATIONS ON A SO-CALLED STABILIZATION AND ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT MAY 11, IF BELGRADE HAD NOT COMPLIED WITH THE EU DEMAND TO HAND OVER MLADIC. DE GUCHT, WHO VISITED THE BALKANS LAST WEEK, ALSO WARNED THAT BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA HAD TO DO MORE TO COMPLY WITH THE U.N. WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL IN THE HAGUE, NOTABLY TO HUNT DOWN OTHER TOP WAR CRIMES SUSPECT RADOVAN KARADZIC. «BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA IS NOT DOING ENOUGH TO BREAK DOWN THE NETWORK THAT PROTECTS HIM, MEANING THE CUTTING OF HIS FINANCIAL BACKING,» SAID DE GUCHT. MLADIC AND KARADZIC, THE FORMER POLITICAL LEADER OFBOSNIA’S ETHNIC SERBS, HAVE BEEN ON THE RUN SINCE THEBOSNIAN WAR ENDED IN 1995. BOTH WERE INDICTED ON CHARGES OF GENOCIDE AND OTHER WAR CRIMES DURING BOSNIA’S 1992-95 WAR. 1426 Local Time 1126 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/357303