Hungary will raise the issue of alleged ethnic violence against the Hungarian minority in Serbia at a meeting of European Union foreign ministers next week, foreign minister Laszlo Kovacs said Wednesday in Budapest.

Hungary claims a string of violent incidents this year in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina -- including brawls and vandalism -- have been ethnically motivated against the Hungarian minority there.

Ethnic Hungarians make up 14 percent of the province's population.

"The document states that the EU observes with worry the attacks against the non-Serb communities, which endanger democracy and the stability and security of the region," Kovacs told a press conference following a cabinet meeting.

He said the text of the document has already been sent to EU member-states and could be adopted at an EU foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels on Monday.

Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica on Wednesday visited Vojvodina to address the concerns of the Hungarian minority.

"Incidents have happened on both sides and they should neither be hidden nor exaggerated," Kostunica told reporters in Temerin, a town in northern Serbia where ethnic Hungarians form a significant minority.

"If they are exaggerated there is a danger of inflaming inter-ethnic intolerance."

Serbian police have said most of the recent incidents were not ethnically motivated.

"The Serbian government hopes with all its heart that Vojvodina, perhaps one of the most multi-ethnic regions of Europe, will keep good traditional relations between the different ethnic groups which live here," Kostunica said.

Some 26 ethnic groups are recognised as minorities in Vojvodina.