More funding to clean up Serbia

The United Nations Environment Programme is intensifying efforts to raise funds for the environmental clean-up of Serbia, following the bombing campaign by NATO two years ago.

It's raised a third of the twenty-million dollars needed to protect people from the effects of pollution, but is now calling on international donors to fund the rest of its programme. A UNEP team has just completed a tour of some of the worst affected parts of Serbia.

The BBC Belgrade correspondent says the town of Pancevo, which lies on the River Danube just east of Belgrade, is causing western environmental experts the biggest headache.

When an industrial complex there was bombed, thousands of tons of toxic and cancer-causing chemicals were released into the environment.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service