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Bubalo, Loncar visit flood-stricken municipalities

Trstenik/Zrenjanin, 20 March 2006

Serbian Minister of Economy Predrag Bubalo visited today Bogdanje near Trstenik and said that the government will take all necessary steps to protect and repair damaged village houses affected by landslide, particularly in the village of Bogdanje.

Damaged village house in Bogdanje

Author: Tanjug

Bubalo said that the government will set aside certain funds to help the people there. He also said that an agreement was reached with representatives of the Trstenik municipality to move the part of Bogdanje in imminent danger of landslide to another location where new houses and other facilities will be built.

He stressed that the situation in the village is alarming and that maximum resources must be engaged, adding that he will inform the government on this as soon as possible.

President of the Trstenik municipality Radovan Radovic said that the municipality will offer portions of land to villagers so that the most endangered households can be moved to another location. He said he hopes that the construction of 20 new houses, to replace those that have collapsed or are marked to be pulled down, is to begin in ten days, whereas the remaining 80 houses will be built a little later.

President of the Bogdanje Crisis Response Team Dragomir Apostolovic pointed out that the Team is constantly in session and its representatives are in the field, helping to move people out, as well as cattle and other possessions.

After the stricken area in the Trstenik municipality, Bubalo also visited villages in the Kopaonik region.

President of the Secanj municipality Predrag Milosevic, left, and Serbian Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Zoran Loncar

Author: Tanjug

Serbian Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Zoran Loncar today visited the flooded areas in the municipality of Secanj, where he was briefed on the damage caused by the appearance of groundwater in some ten villages in the municipality.

In his report to Loncar, President of the Secanj municipality Predrag Milosevic said that the municipality committee has registered more than a thousand instances of damaged arable land and housing. The damage is unofficially estimated at 250 million dinars.

The minister promised to help in clearing up the damage and said that the government will discuss this problem at its next session on March 23.

Loncar also promised to the Secanj municipality citizens financial help for opening a public service, a modern administrative centre of local self-government. Approximately 3.5 million dinars, allocated from the Games of Chance Fund, will be invested in this project.

Serbian Minister of Finance Mladjan Dinkic said today that the government will offer all possible support to flood and landslide stricken areas in the Trstenik, Kraljevo and other municipalities.

Dinkic expressed the government's readiness to help the most threatened families and recalled that there is a special fund established for such purposes, but said that an accurate damage estimation is necessary before the distribution of funds.