A top European Union official says the 28-country bloc will disburse aid to flood-ravaged Serbia “swiftly” but that it is waiting for Belgrade to submit a damage report before it can sign off the assistance.
Serbia is hosting a donors conference in Belgrade on May 22 to help deal with devastating floods that have wreaked havoc in the Balkans this week.
Bosnia and Serbia have begun counting the cost of devastating floods that have left at least 49 people dead and forced some 150,000 to flee their homes.
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has announced during a visit to Brussels that a donors conference to raise funds to combat flooding and help with the reconstruction of the country will take place in Belgrade on May 22.
Thousands of Bosnians, Serbs, and Croatians were evacuated as rising floodwaters swallowed homes and farmland.
Bosnian Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija said more than 25 percent of his country's population has been affected by worst floods to hit the Balkans in living memory.
More than 6,000 people have been forced to flee the town of Bijeljina in northeastern Bosnia-Herzegovina due to the worst floods in living memory. More than two dozen people have been reported killed as floods swept through large parts of Bosnia.
Cleanup operations have begun in parts of Serbia and Bosnia after massive floods, even as cities on the Sava River brace for a new wave of flooding.
Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic launched the defense case in his trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on May 19.
Record flooding in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia has led to the evacuation of thousands of people in both countries and now there are reports landslides caused by rain-saturated ground are causing further danger.
More than 20 people are feared dead in the worst flooding to hit the Balkans in a century.
Hundreds of people have been forced to leave the western suburbs of Sarajevo amid severe flooding in the Bosnian capital. Heavy rain throughout much of the Balkans has caused rivers to overflow their banks, blocking roads and forcing residents to evacuate their homes.
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