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BELGRADE – The water levels on the Danube and Sava rivers in Belgrade are expected to reach their peak during the night between Saturday and Sunday, but there no risk of flooding in the Serbian capital’s central municipalities, Belgrade emergency directorate chief Rade Milosevic said Saturday.

OBRENOVAC - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said Saturday that the floods which hit Serbia recently should serve as a sharp reminder to the Serbian people but also as an example of “how the country and its people can get united in a situation.”

BELGRADE - The Macedonian Opera and Ballet has decided to send the entire proceeds from the play Faust, staged as part the May Opera Evenings in Skopje on May 22, as aid for the people badly hit by the recent massive flooding in Serbia, the National Theatre in Belgrade has said in a release.

Friday night passed off peacefully in flooded areas of Serbia and the overall situation is becoming more stable.

In Obrenovac, the town southwest of Belgrade that suffered the heaviest floods, life is slowly returning to normal. Some people are going home and the army, gendarmerie and veterinary teams are assisting them in dealing with the consequences of the floods.

LJUBOVIJA - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic delivered humanitarian aid to endangered residents of the municipality of Ljubovija in western Serbia, where the situation is very bad after the recent heavy flooding, on Friday.

BELGRADE - President of the Red Cross of the Republic of Serbia Dragan Radovanovic stated on Friday that around 34,000 people were evacuated during the flashing floods in Serbia and added that the list containing the names of 73 people still reported as missing has been filed to the Interior Ministry.

BELGRADE - The World Wildlife Fund in Serbia (WWF) released on Friday that a unified and more transparent approach needs to be taken on in flood management and added that the former flood areas need to be connected to rivers.

BELGRADE - The Serbian parliament's committee on agriculture decided on Friday to set up a sub-committee tasked with monitoring the repair of the damage caused by the severe flash floods that hit villages, the fields of agriculture, forestry and water management.

BELGRADE/OBRENOVAC - The water from the flooded Belgrade municipality of Obrenovac may subside in around five days and as of Sunday, the level of the Sava River may be expected to drop, the National Emergency Management Headquarters stated at the session on Friday.

The extensive floods in Bosnia-Herzegovina have destroyed key files of local courts and the Prosecution.