A UN war crimes court will hand down on March 24 its long-awaited verdict on Bosnian Serb ex-leader Radovan Karadzic accused of 11 charges including genocide arising out of the Balkans wars, the tribunal said Thursday.

"The pronouncement of the judgement in this case (will) take place on Thursday 24 March 2016 at 2 pm in courtroom I," the presiding judge in the case said. Karadzic is in detention in The Hague awaiting the verdict after closing arguments in his trial concluded in October 2014.