Tanjug

BELGRADE - Tanjug will open a photo exhibition at Mikser House in Belgrade on Monday and all the proceeds from the sale of the photographs will be donated as humanitarian aid.

The exhibition will comprise 36 photos, but the visitors will be able to view several hundred more on screens. All of the shots were made at the sites of the recent catastrophic floods in Serbia.

BELGRADE - The Russian rescuers who provided assistance in the rescue efforts during the floods in Serbia departed from the Belgrade airport Nikola Tesla on Monday.

Russia's Deputy Minister of Emergencies Eduard Chizhikov said that the rescue operation in Serbia had been completed, and he thanked his countrymen on their brave efforts.

BELGRADE - The health situaton is stable in the flooded areas of Serbia where people are beginning to return, State Secretary for Health Berislav Vekic said on Monday, stressing that the shelters for those who had been evacuated were under constant monitoring.

BELGRADE - French humanitarian organization Solidarity for Kosovo has provided 18 tons of canned food for the families badly affected by the recent heavy flooding in Serbia and the aid was delivered to a warehouse of the Red Cross in Belgrade on Saturday.

BELGRADE – Africa Day will not be held in Serbia this year as the money that should have been used to organize the event will be redirected to help the people badly hit by the recent floods in the country, Algerian Ambassador to Serbia Abdelkader Mesdoua said Friday.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic informed U.S. Ambassador in Belgrade Michael Kirby on Friday about the initiative for staging a donor conference to raise aid for the countries in the region which were recently hit by floods.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will meet on Friday with President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Suma Chakrabarti, who is on a visit to Serbia, the Serbian president's press office released in a statement.

BELGRADE - A final assessment of damages from floods could take several months to complete and we will therefore not wait any longer before approving aid for Serbia, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Suma Chakrabarti said in Belgrade Thursday.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government adopted a decree on Thursday to set up the office for help and recovery of the flooded areas and decided to set aside RSD 100 million for repair of the damage caused by the floods.

BRUSSELS - The screening for another chapter in the Serbia-EU accession talks opened in Brussels on Thursday and the main topic of today's discussion covers information society and the media.