The transfer of the Bosnian Serb general, Radislav Krstic, to the UN War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague has been delayed because of bad weather.

Krstic, who is charged with genocide in connection with the fall of the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica in 1995, was arrested yesterday Wednesday by NATO-led peace-keeping forces in the north of the Bosnian Serb Republic.

The Bosnian Mulsims have welcomed this first arrest of a general, but the Bosnian Serb president, Nikola Poplasen, accused the NATO-led Stabilisation Force of highway robbery and said his government was cutting links with it to a minimum.