Ranko Ostojić

BELGRADE - Croatia and Serbia are preparing an agreement on protection against natural and man-made disasters and on dealing with their aftermath and the agreement will soon be signed, the Belgrade daily newspaper Politika reported on Tuesday.

While Serbia and Bosnia are at the epicentre of the worst floods in the Balkans in over a century, neighbouring Croatia has not been left unscathed, especially in the east, near the Serbian border.

The worst affected areas are Slavonski Šamac and Županja in Croatia’s eastern Vukovar-Syrmia County.