(dpa ) - Serbian President Boris Tadic on Friday called the National Security Council to meet urgently after riots targeting western embassies in Belgrade the previous day.
Tadic has condemned the violence, looting and arson that occurred on the margins of a massive protest at Kosovo's declaration of independence and Western support of it.
One person was killed during the ransacking and torching of the US embassy. The charred remains were not identified by Friday afternoon.
"There is no excuse for violence, nobody may with a single word try justifying what has happened yesterday," pro-European Tadic said.
"It was not Serbia and Serbia will not be like that," he said. "Law and order must rule and violence which has happened in Belgrade must never again be repeated."
The National Security Council is the highest defence body, grouping the president, prime minister, assembly speaker, defence and interior ministers and the heads of security and intelligence services.
It is alternately chaired by the president and prime minister. Tadic's statement did not say when the council would meet.
Also attacked on Thursday were the diplomatic missions of Croatia, Germany, Canada, Turkey, Belgium and Bosnia as well as businesses and stores from countries the mob regarded as hostile to Serbia.
A lot of looting brought the political aspect of the riots into question.
