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Death toll now 27, prime minister announces

BELGRADE -- Serbian PM Aleksandar Vučić said on Wednesday that so far 27 bodies of victims have been recovered from areas hit by the severe floods in Serbia.

According to him, "at least 10 or 11 died of natural causes."

Former Prime Minister Sali Berisha on Thursday called for a parliamentary inquiry into claims that the centre-left government of Premier Edi Rama has imported oil from Teheran, breaking the UN-imposed embargo.

“The government has breached the embargo by allowing imports of oil from Iran, a grave national and international act,” Berisha said during Thursday's parliamentary session.

"No pension cuts until PM says so"

BELGRADE -- Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dačić has siad there would be no reduction of pensions "until Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić says so."

He added that government policy "can only be conducted by its president, not its ministers individually."

BELGRADE - Members of the Serbian parliament will appoint the government at a special session on Sunday when the prime minister-designate Aleksandar Vucic is due to present his expose, together measures and plans his cabinet intends to carry out in the next four years.

The government's battle to see the measures agreed with its creditors clear Parliament had its first casualty as Alternate Agricutlural Development Minister Maximos Harakopoulos announced post on Saturday afternoon he has tendered his resignation from his post.

BELGRADE - The arrest and trial of drug lord Darko Saric will lead to a reduced role of organised crime in society, US Ambassador to Serbia Michael Kirby has said in an interview with Politika, adding that possible ties between Saric and government officials must be checked.

PM Ivica Dačić participated in a high-level regional forum organized in London on Monday by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

He presented Serbia's results in the creation of favorable business and investment environment, emphasizing that no project can be implemented without stability of the region.

BELGRADE - Ivica Dacic, prime minister in the outgoing Serbian government and leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), has said that he asked First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic several times if he wanted to become prime minister without calling elections but Vucic told him it was not a goal of his.