Politics of Serbia

Police prevented Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj from holding a rally in the village of Hrtkovci, where he made nationalist speeches in 1992 that got him convicted of war crimes.

The Serbian Radical Party said it has appealed the ban on its planned rally in the village of Hrtkovci, where its leader Vojislav Seselj made nationalist speeches in 1992, for which he was convicted of war crimes.

Belgrade declared its willingness to take over the case against two Serbian Radical Party members who are wanted by the UN court in The Hague for threatening and trying to bribe witnesses at their nationalist leader’s trial.

The interior ministry banned a rally that Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj planned in the village of Hrtkovci, where he made nationalist speeches in 1992 that got him convicted of war crimes.

Opposition parties called for a ban on a rally that Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj plans in the village of Hrtkovci, where he made nationalist speeches in 1992 that got him convicted of war crimes.

The protest came after member of the Serbian National Assembly and leader of the opposition SRS party Vojislav Seselj caused an incident during the visit of a delegation of the Croatian Assembly.

But the ambassador said that Serbian officials did not do anything to make the Croatian delegation cut short its visit.

The attempt at tearing apart Croatian or any other flag or state symbols and insulting members of official delegations on a friendly visit to our country is not a behavior that represents Serbia, Brnabic said, adding:

"In this way I want to condemn unambiguously, directly and in the harshest terms the conduct of Vojislav Seselj in the Serbian parliament.

The Croatian government announced on Twitter that the entire delegation would return to Croatia, while the Zagreb-based media published a statement from the office of the Croatian Assembly President Goran Jandrokovic, who was in Serbia today.

A delegation led by Croatian parliament speaker Gordan Jandrokovic abruptly ended its visit to Belgrade after convicted war criminal and Serbian MP Vojislav Seselj insulted them and trampled the Croatian flag.

A Belgrade-based NGO staged a protest in defence of an MP who called for the removal of Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj from Serbia's parliament because of his recent war crimes conviction.