Serbia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday the country would demand a United Nations Security Council urgent meeting after Pristina decided to transform its Security Forces into an army "in violation of the Resolution 1244" adopted in 1999 after the war in the then Serbia’s rebellious province, the Beta news agency reported.

Serbia’s Government condemned Pristina for transforming the Kosovo Security Forces (BSK) into the army and said the decision gravely disregarded the international law principles.

“The decision is contrary to (Kosovo) Constitution written and adopted by the Provisional Self-governing Institutions in Pristina which is an absurd and proof it does not respect its norms, let alone the international ones,” Serbia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The statement added both the Government and Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic “are carefully monitoring the situation in Kosovo.”

The Parliament in Pristina passed laws enabling the transformation of the BSK into the army, without changing the name but with all other military attributes, despite NATO’s warning that it was not the right time for the move.

Belgrade says the aim of forming the army was to scare the remaining Serbs and force them to leave Kosovo. Serbia also says it will protect its people there, adding it won’t like to have to do that by force, but referred to the army as an occupation force.