In tandem with our Serbian member...CEKOR, Bankwatch has been monitoring the rights of Roma communities living in Belgrade for several years...paying particular attention to the resettlements taking place...to accommodate EIB and EBRD funded projects...the Gazela Bridge, Sava Bridge and adjacent roads...[In] April this year, 100 out of more than 240 families forcibly evicted from Belgrade’s Belvil settlement...and who were not Belgrade residents were bussed out of the capital and taken to towns and cities across the country. Five families that were returned to the...city of Nis...spent three months in an abandoned warehouse, with no proper sanitation or electricity and only in late July...received access to running water...[A]s part of the resettlement processes related to...the Gazela and Sava projects, Roma people have been resettled in metal accommodation containers on the Belgrade periphery...Around 114 families from Gazela Bridge were bussed to the outskirts of Belgrade and given accommodation in metal containers...The plight of the Roma in Belgrade was raised...with Sir Suma Chakrabarti, the new president of the EBRD...Chakrabarti expressed surprise that the situation is so grave and pledged that he would personally request a revision of the process, the formulation of a plan to assist the economic activity of the resettled population and that a plan for long term housing would be provided for all the resettled families affected by the Gazela and Sava projects.