Radical Serb leader Vojislav Seselj on Thursday praised the "honourable and fair" UN judges who acquitted him of nine charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
"This time, after all the trials that accused innocent Serbs who received draconian sentences, two judges appeared who are honourable and fair people," Seselj told the press in Belgrade.
He said the judges had "shown that their professionalism and honour are above any political pressure" and brought "the only possible verdict".
In a shock ruling, judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) found Seselj not guilty on all the charges arising out of the 1990s Balkan wars.
The 61-year-old was not present in court because he was allowed back to Serbia in 2014 to receive cancer treatment, after nearly 12 years in detention at The Hague.
Seselj, who gave himself up to the tribunal in 2003, said he still believed it was an "anti-Serb court".
"The moment I left for the Hague I knew they could not prove I had committed a single crime," he said.