The Washington D.C. based lobbyshop Barbour Griffith & Rogers [3] (BG&R) has landed a $60,000 a month contract to represent Serbia. The contract, which was signed by Serbia's Minister for International Economic Relations, Milan Parivodic, runs until January 2009. BG&R's deal comes at a time when the Serbian government is under increasing pressure to ensure the arrest of Ratko Mladic, who the United Nations wants brought before the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia over his role [4] in the war in Bosnia between 1992 and 1995. Serbia's failure to capture Mladic has resulted in the U.S. suspending aid and the European Union refusing to discuss Serbia's interest in becoming a member. This week the UN's chief prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, expressed dissatisfaction [5] with the level of co-operation from the Serbian government.