Serbia's Prime Minister accused the UN Yugoslav war crimes court Friday of being "political" and failing to reconcile the Balkans, a day after radical Serb leader Vojislav Seselj was acquitted.

Premier Aleksandar Vucic said reconciliation had been one of the main goals of court, set up to try crimes during the 1990s Balkan conflicts, but "there is no doubt that The Hague tribunal has not fulfilled this goal".

"Many verdicts have actually shown that this tribunal acted mainly as a political court, not a legal institution," he said, also referring to Seselj's trial as "political".

Source: AFP