Serbia hopes EU ministers will push forward the country's progress towards membership of the bloc despite genocide suspect Ratko Mladic remaining at large, officials said Sunday. Their comments came on the eve of an EU meeting on Monday that will consider starting the ratification process for the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) -- a key step towards Serbian membership. 'Serbia has given its utmost on its path towards European integration and I am convinced that the European Union ministers will open the way for us', parliament speaker Slavica Djukic Dejanovic told Tanjug news agency. Serbian deputy Prime minister Bozidar Djelic, also in charge of European integration, will travel to Luxembourg for a series of talks with EU officials during the meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council. Bosnian Serb general Mladic has been on the run since being indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague in 1995 for for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The charges relate to his role Bosnia's brutal 1992-5 war as Yugoslavia tore itself apart, including his alleged role in the Srebrenica massacre -- as Yugoslavia tore itself apart. The EU has previously insisted that the stabilisation agreement would only be ratified if Belgrade proved its full cooperation with the UN court, which is believed to include the arrest and transfer of Mladic for trial. To prove this Serbia needs a positive report on its cooperation with the tribunal by chief UN prosecutor Serge Brammertz. Milica Delevic, head of the Serbian government's office for European integration, said she expected that Brammertz's report 'will secure a green light from the EU ministers for the start of ratification process.' 'Aware of efforts (Serbian authorities) are investing towards the arrest of the remaining fugitives, I believe that Brammertz's report will enable the start of the SAA ratification,' Delevic told Tanjug. Brammertz said in Belgrade last month he was 'cautiously optimistic' that Serbia was getting closer to arresting Mladic, who is believed to be in Serbia. 