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Republic of Serbia was hit by the rainfall that caused the biggest floods in the last hundred years.

Over 25 thousand people have been evacuated from their homes, dozen of towns are abandoned, hundreds of thousands of people remained without electricity.

The floods claimed the lives of more than 20 of our citizens, and some cities may remain permanently abandoned as witnesses of this great tragedy. Dead livestock, destruction of crops, damage to property are yet to be calculated. First estimations go around 1 billion euros dammage.

Along the large number of employees of the Ministry of Interior, the Serbian Army and others, the help for the devastated regions have come with numerous volunteers from Serbia and the region.

International assistance is coming from the EU member states, Russia, USA, UAE, Japan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Israel, and others.

The Serbian government has opened dinar and foreign currency accounts at which those who want to help victims of floods can deposit money.

Those wishing to do so, may support flood victims by making payments on the following special accounts of the Government of the Republic of Serbia:

1. Serbian Dinar account 840-3546721-89, purpose of payment: assistance to flood-affected areas.

2. Account in foreign currency, bank account No 01-504619-100193230-000000-0000 - Ministry of Finance – Treasury, Belgrade, special account for assistance to flood-affected areas,

IBAN RS 35908504619019323080, with instructions as follows:

PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS - EUR

SWIFT MESSAGE FIN 103

FIELD 32A: VALUE DATE - CURRENCY - AMOUNT FIELD

50K: ORDERING CUSTOMER

FIELD 56A: DEUTDEFF

/INTERMEDIARY/

FIELD 57A: /DE20500700100935930800

/ACC. WITH BANK/ NBSRRSBG

FIELD 59: /RS35908504619019323080

(BENEFICIARY) MINISTARSTVO FINANSIJA UPRAVA ZA TREZOR

FIELD 70: DETAILS OF PAYMENT

 

PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS - USD

SWIFT MESSAGE FIN 103

FIELD 32A: VALUE DATE - CURRENCY - AMOUNT

FIELD 50K: ORDERING CUSTOMER

FIELD 56A: BKTRUS33

/INTERMEDIARY/

FIELD 57A: /04415465

/ACC. WITH BANK/ NBSRRSBG

FIELD 59: /RS35908504619019323080

(BENEFICIARY) MINISTARSTVO FINANSIJA UPRAVA ZA TREZOR

FIELD 70: DETAILS OF PAYMENT

 

The Crisis Staff was formed within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to coordinate activities related to collecting aid and donations from abroad.

Crisis Staff can be contacted by phone or via the internet +38166806-60-20 or e-mail kriznistab@mfa.rs