(DOLJEVAC) - Serbia expects a positive report on its cooperation with the UN war crimes court, a key condition for its integration into the European Union, a minister said Wednesday.

Serge Brammertz, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), is to visit Belgrade on September 10-11 before he is to report to the United Nations on Serbia's cooperation.

"This visit is very useful for us ... I expect that a positive report will be adequately valued by Brussels," said Rasim Ljajic, Serbia's minister in charge of cooperation with The Hague-based court.

By arresting wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in July, Serbia had "shown both the international community and the UN tribunal our absolute responsibility" to end the saga of war crimes fugitives, said Ljajic.

Brammertz is to present his report to the UN Security Council.

His estimates on Serbia's readiness to arrest the two remaining fugitives, Karadzic's military chief Ratko Mladic and Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic, will strongly influence Serbia's chances of further rapprochement with the EU.

Ljajic said there "have been no spectacular actions" aimed at arresting Mladic and denied press reports that authorities have started negotiating his surrender.

"It is in our interests to end this as soon as possible," Ljajic said.

Brammertz, who succeeded Carla Del Ponte as prosecutor at the beginning of the year, cancelled a planned visit to Belgrade after Karadzic's arrest in late July, 13 years after the ICTY indicted him.

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