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Predrag Maric, head of police emergency sector, said on Sunday that the situation in all critical areas is stable and there is no risk of new flooding.

“There are no new critical point in terms of what we had over the past 12 days," Maric told Beta news agency.

The government did its job

The Day of Bulgarian Letters, Education and Culture, May 24, Saturday, will be marked in Rome, as well.

The Bulgarian officials, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Zinaida Zlatanova, will attend on May 24 the ceremony at Vatican's Basilica of San Clemente paying tribute at the grave of St Cyril, one of the missionary brothers who created the Cyrillic alphabet in the 9th century.

At their first showpiece convention, more than 1,500 war veterans and high-profile nationalist supporters accused the centre-left government of demeaning Croatia’s wartime defenders.

EULEX sends one, Belarus two helicopters

Belgrade, Moscow -- A helicopter of the EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, sent to assist in rescue efforts in flood-hit Serbia landed in Belgrade on Sunday.

The helicopter will assist the police in central Serbia.

Blue countries gave Austria 12 points, red countries gave it no points, and the intermediate colours show the scale of points in between | by Dr Alan Renwick

The academies of science of Bulgaria and Macedonia held the first joint celebration of the feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius, two of the fathers of the Slavic literary culture.

The head of a group campaigning against the official introduction of Serbian Cyrillic script in Vukovar was convicted of ordering the destruction of bilingual signs in the wartime flashpoint town.

A witness accused former Croatian Defence Council fighter Perica Adzic, on trial for mistreating prisoners of war at a school in Zepce, of threatening him and the child with a pistol.

Nihad Bojadzic, the former deputy commander of the Bosnian Army’s Zulfikar Squad, said that he did not lead a wartime attack on the village of Trusina, where 22 Croats were killed.

NOVI SAD - Members of the Vojvodina Assembly Collegium and the Working group in charge of preparation of the draft statute of the province reached an agreement on a majority of open issues and adopted decisions concerning alternative solutions in the text, the cabinet of Vojvodina Assembly President Istvan Pastor released.