A Serbian court has ruled that the former Bosnian Serb war chief Ratko Mladic is fit enough to face charges of genocide at The Hague.
The court in Belgrade said the 69-year-old had until Monday to appeal against a ruling that will see him extradited to the Netherlands, where he will be tried for war crimes.
Mladic was hauled before a judge in Belgrade on Thursday, but the hearing was cut short because of what his lawyer called Mladic's "poor physical state."
He looked frail and haggard as he asserted he would not answer to the authority of the United Nations tribunal.
Mladic was captured following an early-morning raid by Serbian security forces on a relative's home in a village 60 miles north east of the capital, Belgrade.
He is accused of ordering the genocidal massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys during the war of 1992-95.
Mladic's lawyer Milos Saljic said he would appeal against the extradition and insisted that Mladic could not be handed over to The Hague until his health was stable.
