Is they is or is they ain't negotiating with Mladic? First, we have this story:
“Negotiations under way” with Mladic 11:42 July 22 B92
BELGRADE -- Friday – Negotiations are between conducted for the surrender of Hague Tribunal fugitive Ratko Mladic, the director of the Humanitarian Law Centre said today. Natasa Kandic, speaking on TV B92, said that the negotiations were either being conducted directly or by someone authorised by the Cabinet to negotiate with Mladic’s associates. The open question, she said, was whether the decision would for Mladic to completely disappear or to receive money in return for his surrender. She claims that Mladic’s people “are counting on the five million dollar reward which the US Government has pledged for information on Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, and one condition sought is the place where Mladic’s prison sentence will be served”. Kandic says that she does not believe anyone from the present government who says they don’t know where the former Bosnian Serb military commander is. “I think that the situation is such that the authorities could repeat from morning to night that they have no information on the whereabouts of Mladic and Karadzic, but the question is who will believe it. It’s so obvious, that know they’re claiming they don’t know, he was here somewhere nearby, it’s easy to see where he was,” she said. During Boris Tadic’s period as defence minister he knew where Mladic was, Kandic believes: “I think that Tadic was in some situations where he could not talk about what he knew. I believe that even he knew where Mladic was and under whose protection. I don’t believe that the late prime minister Zoran Djindjic didn’t know. Everyone had at least some information about where Mladic was located,” she added. Meanwhile, the press representative of the Hague Tribunal Prosecution says that Mladic is in Serbia and that because of this is it is unacceptable that he has not been arrested. Florence Hartman told Belgrade daily Danas that Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte had told the UN Security Council that the political will in Serbia for voluntary surrenders was limited. “It’s now the case that there are no more voluntary surrenders,” she added.
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?dd=22&mm=7&yyyy=2005

Then, we get this story:
“We know nothing” 13:29 July 25 Beta
BELGRADE -- Monday – Serbian Human Rights Minister Rasim Ljajic said that the government is not negotiating with Hague fugitive Ratko Mladic and that it has no information regarding his whereabouts. Ljajic, who is also president of the National Hague cooperation council, said that the government has never worked more intensively on trying to locate Mladic. “Among the locations we will be checking in looking for Mladic will be several security structures of the international community.” Ljajic said. “It is not true that Prime Minister Kostunica is the only one responsible for the fact that Mladic is still at large, the entire Democratic Opposition of Serbia knew where he was at one point. It is possible that there are individuals who are still helping to protect Mladic, but there is no organized structure within the military that is helping him hide.” Ljajic told daily Blic.
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?dd=25&mm=7&yyyy=2005

Wonder who started THAT little rumor?