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BARIC - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday said Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic would on Thursday announce the date of the upcoming presidential elections.

Speaking to reporters, Vucic said the elections would be held pursuant to the law, dismissing criticism from "those who think the campaign time frame is short."

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BARIC - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday attended the start of works to build a Corridor 11 motorway section that will connect the Belgrade suburban municipalities of Surcin and Obrenovac.

He noted he was grateful to Chinese friends, with whom a 208 mln euro contract had been signed after long negotiations he said had not been easy.

BARIC - Serbia's Prime Minister-designate Aleksandar Vucic on Friday toured the construction site of a Mei Ta plant in Baric in the Belgrade municipality of Obrenovac that should hire 1,400 workers to produce automotive and engine parts.

Vucic said that he is proud to see a construction site with 300 workers and that he is always glad when works are progressing fast.

BELGRADE - The Baric-based company in restructuring Prva Iskra stores more than 500 tons of hazardous waste whose management would require nearly EUR 1 million, earlier assessments have shown.

BELGRADE – Belgrade’s Emergency Headquarters has made a decision that all centers for the reception of citizens evacuated from flood-hit areas are to be handled by the Red Cross starting from Thursday, as the situation in the flooded regions of the city is gradually getting back to normal.

Situation stable, some flood evacuees to return home

BELGRADE -- The situation in the regions affected by the floods is stable this morning; some of the more than 30,000 evacuated residents expected to return to their homes.

Death toll in flood-hit town of Obrenovac unknown

BELGRADE -- The flood-hit areas of Obrenovac and Barič near Belgrade, Sremska Mitrovica in the north and Krupanj and Šabac in western Serbia remain the most critical.

The village of Barič has been preventively evacuated, with the flood wave on the Sava River expected to arrive later on Saturday.