Vojislav Seselj's health condition is unchanged and he is in the detention unit, ICTY spokeswoman Nerma Jelacic told Tanjug on Wednesday.

Jelacic added that Seselj has not submitted the official motion for provisional release yet.

The Belgrade press recently reported that it is possible that the leader of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) will be in Serbia on Friday, and that, allegedly, he only has to submit the official request for temporary provisional release.

Rasim Ljajic, the head of the Serbian National Council for Cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY), said earlier that he had addressed the letter to Judge Jean-Claude Antonetti, who presides over Seselj's trial, stating that Serbia was willing to consider a request for guarantees for Seselj's temporary release if the ICTY wished it.

Ljajic noted that Seselj himself has not formally requested the guarantees from the government, but that he did ask the ICTY during his closing argument to grant him temporary release.

According to Jelacic, the indictee should file a written request for a temporary release, and the trial chamber, in its deliberations regarding the request, will seek guarantees from the country the accused is going to stay in during the release.

She reiterated that Seselj has not submitted any written motion for provisional release in compliance with the ICTY regulations, but that he requested a temporary release during his closing argument in March, which the trial chamber denied.

The SRS stated early Wednesday that Seselj was again transferred to hospital and sent back to the tribunal's detention unit in Scheveningen during the same day.

Seselj is charged with war crimes in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Vojvodina committed between 1991 and 1993.

In their closing argument, the prosecution team requested that Seselj be sentenced to 28-year imprisonment.