LONDON - NATO will this week tell Serbia where it dropped cluster bombs during the 1999 campaign, the Independent reported.
The London-based daily writes in its Sunday issue that NATO chiefs “have bowed to mounting pressure from foreign governments and pressure groups and will hand over full coordinates for the hundreds of bombing sorties to the Serbian government.”
The pledge from NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (Shape) will end a delay condemned by human rights groups and described as "...
BELGRADE - The EBRD today approved a EUR 45mn to the Victoria Group, to be used for purchasing cereal and increasing energy efficiency.
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development representative Vedrana Jelušić told a press conference in Belgrade that the loan was the largest thus far approved by that international financial institution to a private company in Serbia.
She said that the majority of the EUR 40mn had been approved over five years and would be used to purchase oilseed and cereal for two co...
NOVI BEČEJ - 36 tons of dead fish have been pulled out from the Tisa River in Vojvodina as a consequence of a toxic spill.
The pollution was reportedly caused by sugar mill TE-TO and yeast factory Fermin.
On September 1, the State Environmental Inspectorate shut down the sugar mill until September 17. From that day forward, the mill will continue with work under supervision of the Inspectorate.
The Republic Water Management Directorate representatives said that complaints had been filed to the court...
BEZDAN - President Boris Tadić and his Hungarian and Croatian counterparts Laszlo Solyom and Stjepan Mesić met Tuesday.
As the three presidents toured one location in each country, Tadić said Belgrade, Zagreb and Budapest should have a trilateral natural disasters agreement, Beta reported.
"Natural disasters demand the initiating of the signing of such an agreement and we, as the presidents of our respective states, will do everything we can to have this treaty adopted by the institutions in our countries,...
SENTA - The State Environmental Inspectorate has temporarily shut down sugar mill in Senta, Vojvodina. The Environment Ministry issued a statement on Saturday in which it says the TE-TO mill (photo) discharged its unfiltered waste water into the Tisa River Friday, causing the death of the fish in the river.
The Fishing Association of Vojvodina reported the occurance of the dead fish to the Inspectorate on Friday and a team was sent to the mill the following day.
The inspectors found that the stream was disco...
BELGRADE - There are 60 unexploded bombs at 43 locations in Serbia, left over from the 1999 war, most in the Danube and Sava river-beds.
Odbrana (Defense) magazine cited records from the Center for Mines Clearance that most of the bombs in question, left unexploded after NATO air campaign, weighing between 250 and 930 kilograms, lay deep in the rivers, which has made it difficult to locate them with precision.
Center’s Director Petar Mihajlović said that, according to some studies, bombs located deeper than...
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KURŠUMLIJA - After the discovery of dead fish in a local river, Kuršumlija residents are without drinking water for fears of pollution.
Kuršumlija Environmental Health Department has turned the water supply off owing to fears that waste water from the Kopaonik wood processing company has been released through cisterns, via the river, into the reservoir which supplies the town with drinking water.
As Department Director Jasminka Novaković-Nedeljković said, the town is supplied with drinking water fr...
PROKUPLJE - The construction of a biofuel-run heating plant in Prokuplje is set to begin soon, reports say.
Slobodan Drašković, director of KD, a company in charge of the construction, says the contract with Public Enterprise Srbijašume on supplying the plant with biofuel needed to generate heat has recently been signed.
According to him, the ambitious project will include creation of as many as 50 new jobs, as the plant is expected to become operational next year.
“We will soon sign agreements with loc...
KURŠUMLIJA - Large amounts of dead fish were found floating late Friday in the Toplica River, near Kuršumlija in southern Serbia.
Officials of the Kuršumlija Association of Sport Fishing said they spotted the dead fish floating in the river stretch 200 kilometers away from Kuršumlija downstream towards Prokuplje at 10 p.m. Friday and notified the police.
Association activist have been keeping watch ever since, awaiting the arrival of a state environment inspector announced for Saturday morning.
On July ...
VALJEVO - Public Enterprise Srbijašume director Ješa Erčić says Serbia will renew 100,000 hectares of forest by 2050.
“We have embarked on an ambitious mission to reforest as many as 100,000 hectares of land by 2050 and raise the forest-covered area to an optimum of 41 percent,” he explained.
Erčić added that EUR 1mn would be set aside from the National Investment Plan for the setting up of a contemporary seeding center which would employ and educate forestry experts and engineers.
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VIENNA - The world’s biggest river expedition of its kind in 2007 was launched today from Regensburg, Germany. Three ships will travel down the length (2,375 km) of the Danube River and its main tributaries to test pollution and water quality. Costing over one million euros, the entire expedition will last until late September.
Known as the ‘Joint Danube Survey 2 (JDS2)’, the expedition has attracted the international cooperation of all Danube countries from Germany to Ukraine. Teams of national scientists will help ...
BELGRADE - Head of the section for environmental protection for pollution at the Serbian Ministry of Environmental Protection Slavica Lekic said today that the ministry has compiled a preliminary list of 243 companies, which are potential pollutants, and will have to obtain integrated licenses for work.
In a statement to the news agency Tanjug, Lekic explained that acquiring integrated work licenses from the Ministry of Environmental Protection implies attestation that the company is conducting its activities without...
BELGRADE - The recent river disasters could have been avoided if the Serbian industry were more environmentally aware.
According to State Environmental Inspector Dragana Vasiljević, the “general problem” is that most industrial companies in Serbia do not have serious treatment measures for waste water that are up to modern environmental standards. This is the main reason behind the river disasters and the recent fish plagues.
This has been indentified as the main reason behind the river disasters and the...
BELGRADE - The Serbian Ministry of Environmental Protection stated today it will organise the 6th ministerial conference “Environment for Europe” scheduled for October 10-12 in Belgrade which will be the most consequential and largest international event in Serbia this year.
The statement adds it is expected that environment ministers and government top officials from 56 countries of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) region, including Canada and USA, participate in the Belgrade Conference.
Also ta...
VIENNA - The Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities will present four projects on water management at a seminar during the World Water Week in Stockholm from 12 to 18 August, the leading annual event focused on implementing international processes and programmes in water and development.
The OSCE will host the seminar together with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), one of its partners in the Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC), which promotes envir...
BELGRADE - Nine animal species, mostly birds, have become extinct in Serbia, the Biological Research Institute said in a report.
The black vulture, lammergeyer and grey crane can no longer be found in Serbia. The European otter, small bustard, one species of grouse, pelican and blue beaked duck are also among the now extinct animals, the research showed.
Even with the disturbing report, experts say the wildlife situation in Serbia is better than in much of Europe.
The good news is that the griffon vul...
POŽEGA - About 500 kilograms of dead fish were found floating in the Skrapež River, near Požega in western Serbia.
The fish were spotted at the location where the city sewage system deposits into the river.
President of the local fishing association Živojin Karaičić said that the dead fish can be seen floating in the river in a stretch of five kilometres between the bridge located near the local health care centre and the river junction in the neighboring town of Đetinje.
Karaičić s...
BOR (Serbia) - As the toxic waste in the Bor River wreaks havoc on the local environment, a World Bank loan raises hopes of a clean-up.
“The land where we stand once housed green pastures where our forefathers’ cattle grazed”, Goran Milojkovic says, motioning towards the strangely coloured river running through the Bor district of eastern Serbia.
“Today that river isn’t home even to micro-organisms; my cattle would die instantly if they drank from it,” he adds.
Goran, a clerk at Bor’s Economics High Sch...
BOR, PIROT, VALJEVO (Serbia) - A Russian water bomber is expected to later Tuesday join efforts to contain forest fires on the Stara Mountain.
Fires are still raging in the Uvac canyon, Svrljig and Bor in the east of the country, with new outbreaks reported in the western Serbian Kolubara district.
A new fire broke out in a village near Pirot Monday while 50 acres of forest are still burning in the Stara Mountain range.
Also, at Black Peak near Bor, a fire has engulfed 50 acres of forest during the last ...
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