Serbian General Ratko Mladic refused to enter a plea at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday on charges including genocide and crimes against humanity.
Mladic said he had not seen the indictment and would need at least three months to read the 37-page document.
Mladic said the charges against him were "obnoxious" and "monstrous" and that he would not enter a plea.
He told the court that he was "gravely ill" and needed a "proper defense."
If Mladic pleads guilty to the 11 counts on the indictment, there will be no trial and the tribunal will sentence him.
If he pleads not guilty, even to one of the charges, the trial will continue.
Judge Alphons Orie said that the hearing would resume on July 4 and Mladic will remain in custody until then.
Mladic was arrested last week in the Serbian village of Lazarevo, 70 kilometers (40 miles) from Belgrade, after 16 years on the run. He was extradited to The Hague on Tuesday to face trial on charges of committing war crimes and genocide during the 1992-95 Bosnian War.
He is believed to have ordered the killing of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995, Europe's worst single atrocity since World War II.
MOSCOW, June 3 (RIA Novosti)
