Vucic: State of natural disaster to be declared

A state of natural disaster will be declared in municipalities hit by floods and a recovery programme will be adopted for them, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Tuesday.

The post-flood recovery programme will be comprehensive and include all facilities and endangered properties, Vucic told reporters at the Kopaonik Business Forum.

Based on a proposal from the Public Investment Management Office to declare a state of natural disaster in some municipalities, the government will adopt the programme and also set aside additional funds for the Lucani municipality, where the floods have damaged the Milan Blagojevic defence industry plant, the prime minister said.

The damage is incomparably smaller than that in 2014 and has been prevented in several locations thanks to barriers and embankments that had been built meanwhile, he said.

Source: Tanjug