The former Bosnian Serb president, Radovan Karadzic, has asked the Hague Tribunal to suspend his trial for one month as he needs time to study the diaries of fugitive wartime commander Ratko Mladic.
According to the Radio Srbija, Serbian police seized 18 of Mladic's wartime diaries from his wife's Belgrade apartment in late February.
The Hague prosecutors have asked the judges to add 3,500 pages of Mladic's notes from the meetings he attended in 1991-1996 to the list of evidence against Karadzic, as Mladic has not been yet apprehended and his family has recently requested that he be declared dead.
Karadzic's trial resumed on March 1 after a four-month break. It originally started on October 26, 2009, but was postponed in early November due to Karadzic's refusal to attend court sessions.
Karadzic, 64, was arrested last year after more than 12 years in hiding. The crimes he is accused of include the massacre of some 7,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995.
Karadzic insists he is innocent of all charges brought against him.
SARAJEVO, May 28 (RIA Novosti)
