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1995-07-11Srebrenica MassacreWar Crime / Atrocity
1995-11-21Dayton Accords SignedDiplomacy
1995-07-25ICTY Indicts MladićLegal / Tribunal
2011-05-26Mladić Arrested in SerbiaLegal / Tribunal
2012-03-01Serbia Receives EU Candidate StatusEU Accession
2014-01-21Accession Negotiations OpenEU Accession
2017-11-22ICTY Convicts Mladić of GenocideLegal / Tribunal
2021-06-08Conviction Confirmed on AppealLegal / Tribunal
2026-09-07Serbia Holds State Funeral for MladićPolitical Crisis
NOTE: Serbia's state funeral for Ratko Mladić — convicted of genocide by the ICTY in 2017, appeal upheld 2021 — has drawn condemnation from the European Commission. As of the date of the funeral, Serbia had provisionally closed 2 of 35 required EU accession chapters. All data sourced from public records of the ICTY, European Commission DG NEAR, and AP News.