The Serbian Radical Party (SRS) presented on Thursday a manifesto of the party's leader and an indictee of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Vojislav Seselj, in which the SRS leader said that Serbia was nearing the crossroads at which it would have to decide whether to continue going the way which leads to destroying the country and its people or to turn to itself, national interests and traditional friends.

Seselj's manifesto was presented at a press conference in Belgrade by a member of the SRS presidential collegium, Boris Aleksic.

Seselj, who is being tried in The Hague, said in his manifesto that Serbia was choking under the weight of injustice and humiliation and brutal mutilation and dismemberment.

Seselj argues that the government's pro-Western policy destroyed Serbia's territoriality and led to the country's economic and social collapse, and questions the future of Serbia if the policy is not abandoned, which is why the SRS is against the joining of the country in the EU and NATO.

The SRS is the only party in Serbia able and ready to help the country stand up straight, Seselj said, adding that the United States and the West had given an order to the tribunal in The Hague not to release him from custody so that he could not return to Serbia before the next parliamentary elections.

Seselj believes the country can only survive in cooperation with Russia and China and is advocating for Serbia's membership in the Collective Security Treaty Organisation and the country's observer status in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

Seselj is currently on trial for crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war allegedly committed in Croatia, Vojvodina and Bosnia-Herzegovina in the period between 1991 and 1993.

Seselj surrendered to the ICTY voluntarily in February 2003, and his trial began in November 2007.