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"We will not allow the (Hague) verdict against Radovan Karadzic to be used against the Serbian people," the Serbian government announced on Friday.

The Serbian government said the verdict convicting Radovan Karadzic must not be used to suggest that all Serbs are collectively guilty, and vowed to keep on supporting fellow Serbs in Bosnia.

Bosnian politicians traded barbs over the verdict against Radovan Karadzic, with Bosniak officials claiming it was a 'condemnation of his politics', while Serb leaders emphasized that Republika Srpska was not on trial.

The conviction of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic must not affect the fate of the Serb Republic (RS), Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said on Thursday.

He urged all political representatives of the Serb people in Bosnia-Herzegovina to fight for the Serb entity in Bosnia and their people.

The Hague Tribunal has found Radovan Karadzic guilty and sentenced him to 40 years in prison in the first-instance verdict announced on Thursday.

The tribunal found the former president of the Serb Republic (RS) in Bosnia guilty of individual responsibility for crimes against humanity, and murders and violations of the laws and customs of war in seven municipalities.

The UN war crimes court in The Hague convicted former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic of genocide and crimes against humanity and sentenced him to 40 years in prison.

The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague will hand down its verdict in the case against former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic in five weeks’ time.

The verdict in the Hague Tribunal trial of former RS President Radovan Karadzic will be announced on March 24.

Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti reported this on Thursday.

Jovan Tintor, a high-ranking wartime politician and former adviser to Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic was arrested on suspicion of taking part in war crimes in Vogosca near Sarajevo.

Oliver Ivanovic’s lawyer Ljubomir Pantovic said that the nine-year prison sentence handed down to his client on Thursday was "bordering on scandal."