CAVTAT, Croatia The International War Crimes Court is increasingly confident that top Bosnian Serb suspects Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic will surrender or be arrested, its spokesman said Wednesday. We absolutely don't doubt for a second that the vice is tightening around Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb president, Christian Chartier said. His powers are being taken away, he is no longer president, his police is being controlled, his means of living are being cut, said Chartier, who was in the Croatian town of Cavtat for an international conference on the psychological and social effects of the 1992-1995 war.

All that was obvious in a process which was designed to weaken him, he said. So logically his arrest or surrender should follow. but I have no idea if it's a question of days or months or weeks. As for Ratko Mladic, the wartime Bosnian Serb military leader, Chartier replied: It's the same. There's no doubt, the main suspects cannot escape from us.

Karadzic and Mladic have been indicted on charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia which sits in The Hague. (AFP)