CROWN PRINCE VISITED FLOODED SETTLEMENT

Belgrade 14th April 2006 – His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander II visited today inhabitants of Belgrade settlement “Partizan” on Ada Ciganlija. People welcomed warmly Crown Prince and presented him with difficult and complicated situation after the floods of river Sava.

Expressing his deepest sympathies for their great material loss after the floods, Crown Prince got acquainted to the details with all the trouble that inhabitants of this small community on Ada Ciganlija are facing last couple of days. People expressed their remorse and sorrow for the fact that they have been, as they say, left alone to fight with water flood consequences. With minimum technical equipment, that is insufficient for normalisation of the life conditions, their chances are weak. People from “Partizan” settlement appealed on His Royal Highness to give to the relevant institutions impulse with his authority in order to help sanitation of the damage.

“Partizan” settlement is facing another hard night. Children and older people have been evacuated from the location, and Crown Prince emphasised that humanitarian disaster, possible with new flood waves must be prevailed.