Algerian Ambassador to Serbia Abdelkader Mesdoua delivered Tuesday to Jeremic a strong collective demarche on behalf of a group of African and Arab states over Jovanovic's recent statement.

The demarche expresses indignation and great disappointment over the fact that there was no official reaction to the racist rhetoric, and calls for condemnation and an apology for the insult.

Serbia's Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said Tuesday, commenting on the recent statement of Liberal Democratic Party leader Cedomir Jovanovic in which he called African peoples and states "cannibals" and the demarche from a group of these countries which followed, that Serbia has been put in a very uncomfortable position and stressed that this is not the official state policy.

At an emergency news conference called after he was presented with the demarche, Jeremic said there was never room for racism in public life in Serbia.

"There are extremists in every society, but luckily in Serbia they are a minority ," Jeremic said.