The Vojislav Kostunica cabinet on Friday announced that it was going to ask UN Administrator in Kosovo, Soren Jessen-Petersen, to prevent Qeku's election as Kosovo Prime Minister, in accordance with his powers under UN Security Council Resolution 1244.
The spokesman Neeraj Singh told reporters on Saturday in Pristina that no such request had been received.
An indictment filed in Serbia charges Qeku as commander of the former Kosovo Liberation Army with the murder of 669 Serbs and 18 members of other national minorities, 518 cases of grave wounding, and 584 kidnappings.
In 2002 Serbian authorities issued an international arrest warrant for Qeku. He was arrested twice, in Ljubljana in 2003 and in Budapest in 2004, but was released after a brief detention on both occasions.
Governments of some Western powers, including the United States and Germany, find nothing contentious in Qeku's nomination, explaining that this is the internal matter of Kosovo.
A similar request was sent from Belgrade in late 2004 when the Serbian government also asked Soren Jessen-Petersen to halt the election of nominated Ramush Haradinaj for the post of the Kosovo premier.
The UN administrator said then that democratically elected Kosovo institutions had the right to decide on their own on local office-holders.