The Serbian Deputy Prime Minister, Vojislav

Seselj, has been expelled from Bosnia

Hercegovina by the international representative

overseeing the Dayton peace accord, Carl

Westendorp.

A spokeswoman for the Nato-led Stabilisation

Force said Mr Seselj was told to leave because of

his anti-Dayton views.

Mr Seselj was visiting the Bosnian Serb President,

Nikola Poplasen, who is head of the Bosnian Serb

wing of Mr Seselj's nationalist Radical Party.

He left the town of Banja Luka in the early hours of

Saturday morning under a Bosnian Serb police

escort and headed for the Yugoslav border.

Stabilisation Force troops earlier blocked access

to the town centre, and surrounded Mr Seselj's

hotel, demanding that he should leave.

Mr Westendorp banned Mr Seselj from entering

the Bosnian Serb republic during the September

election campaign, because of his negative

statements on the role of the international

community in Bosnia.

In a statement made from his hotel before leaving,

Mr Seselj said that the Bosnian Serb republic was

under American occupation, and that Mr

Westendorp's behaviour was in contravention of

the Dayton peace agreement.

Mr Seselj organised Serbian paramilitary units

during the recent wars in Croatia and Bosnia. His

party's manifesto calls for the creation of a greater

Serbia, incorporating various parts of former

Yugoslavia.

14 nov 12H17 GMT BBC