The Netherlands has said that all the conditions it had set for transferring the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president, from Freetown to The Hague have been met. The Dutch announcement on Thursday followed London's announcement that it would allow Taylor to serve a potential jail sentence in Britain. Hannah Tijmes, the foreign ministry spokeswoman, said: "With the British offer to take Taylor to serve a possible sentence there, all conditions set by the Dutch government have been met. The next step is a UN Security Council resolution which I expect to be drawn up in the next few days."Earlier, Britain offered to jail Taylor if he was convicted of war crimes over Sierra Leone's civil war. Margaret Beckett, the British foreign secretary, said London had agreed to a request by Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, who asked that Taylor, if convicted, serve his sentence in Britain.