Perko Matovic

Serbia's opposition SRS party leader Vojislav Seselj said on Thursday he expected Croatia's president to lift a ban on his entry to Croatia.

Seselj then added he would travel to Zagreb "as Serbia's (next) president."

At a parliamentary session on Thursday, Serbian Radical Party chief Vojislav Seselj used his phone to play MPs a traditional Serbian Chetnik song with new lyrics inspired by the victory of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Former US diplomats, academics and activists called on presidential candidate Donald Trump to disavow support from Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj, who is on trial for alleged war crimes.

The nationalist Serbian Radical Party announced that its leader, recently-acquitted war crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj, will run in the presidential elections next year.

The Hague Tribunal's decision to set Vojislav Seselj free "could be the start of a triumphant return of radical nationalism to Serbian politics."

This is according to an article published by the Moscow-based daily Kommersant.

The UN court will deliver its verdict on Thursday in the trial of Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj, who is accused of war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.

Serbian Radical Party leader and war crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj led a rally against NATO and the guilty verdict handed down to former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic.

SRS leader Vojislav Seselj said on Thursday that he would not be watching the reading of the verdict in his Hague trial via video-link.

"Whatever the verdict is, I will appeal it," he said.

The UN court in The Hague said Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj does not have to be present for his war crimes verdict this month, despite its previous demand for him to return.

Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj, whose war crimes verdict is due this month, said he expected the UN court in The Hague to give him a harsh sentence.