Bosnian Serb wartime president Radovan Karadzic (R), posing as a doctor of alternative medicine called Dr. Dragan David Dabic and attending a medical lecture, is seen in this video grab released July 22, 2008. The footage released by Healthy Life Magazine was taken in January 2008.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

Karadzic has been on the run since July 1995 when he was indicted, together with his military commander Ratko Mladic, by The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War.

His arrest is believed to be a clear sign of Serbia's newly formed pro-Western government to establish closer ties with the European Union, which has set full cooperation with the ICTY by arresting all the remaining top war crimes suspects as a condition for applying the pre-membership Stabilization and Association Agreement.

(Xinhua News Agency July 23, 2008)