In the report submitted last week to the country's Supreme Defense Council, the army admitted it had protected Mladic and "occasionally" sheltered him until June 2002.
Mladic has been sought by the UN's Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) since 1996 on charges of genocide for actions taken in the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, including the massacre of some 8,000 Muslims at the town of Srebrenica.
Belgrade has been under heavy pressure to arrest and extradite Mladic, with the ICTY accusing the authorities of a lack of cooperation. Stankovic said the ICTY's chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, had given a positive opinion of the report during a visit to Belgrade on 6 February.
Stankovic said parts of the report would be made public as the investigation progresses.
He added that most of the alleged accomplices have now retired from armed services.
(dpa)
The Fugitives
Ratko Mladic (left) confers with Radovan Karadzic during a meeting in Pale in 1993 (epa)
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Ten years have passed since former Bosnian Serb leader RADOVAN KARADZIC and his former military commander General RATKO MLADIC were indicted by the Hague-based war crimes tribunal for genocide and other war crimes. The two fugitives remain at large, despite the obligation of NATO-led peacekeepers and the various governments in the region to arrest the indictees and send them to The Hague. Many people wonder why the most powerful military alliance in history and a host of governments seeking Euro-Atlantic integration remain unable to catch the two... (more)
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Coffins of Srebrenica victims being prepared for burial in October (AFP)
SREBRENICA: The July 1995 massacre of some 7,000 Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb fighters near the UN-designated safe haven of Srebrenica is the worst atrocity of its kind in Europe since the end of World War II. Since the incident, the name Srebrenica has become practically synonomous with ethnic cleansing....(more)
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