New York - An international court prosecuting crimes committed during the Bosnian war from 1992-1995 is expected to fold in 2010 after this year's full trial of six cases, the court's prosecutor said Thursday.

The six cases include those against Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb leader who, with Army General Ratko Mladic, was responsible for the massacre of Bosnian Muslims during the ethnic war in Bosnia- Herzegovina, which ended with the Dayton peace agreement in 1995.

Karadzic is detained at The Hague, the site of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), awaiting trial. Mladic is still at large.

"The cooperation of states with my office remains critical to the successful completion of our trials and appeal work," prosecutor Serge Brammertz told the United Nations Security Council, which met to discuss the work of the ICTY.

Brammertz said his office has asked Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia to assist in the prosecution of the cases as well as in the arrest of Mladic and Goran Hadzic.

Brammertz said their arrest remains a "central issue" in the court's relationship with the Serbian government. Mladic is believed to be living in Serbia.

He said the court has made significant progress in the past six months to complete the trials of all cases, which are related to war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the massacre of more than 7,000 Bosnians at Srebrenica in 1995.(dpa)