Serbia Sees Key Highway Done In 2011
Politics, Region Wednesday, February 4th, 2009Bujanovac | 04 February 2009 | All 300 kilometres of the Serbian portion of the Corridor 10 highway will be finished in two and a half years, said Milutin Mrkonjic, Serbia’s Capital Investments Minister.
On a visit to south Serbia on Tuesday, he said the project was worth 1.57 billion euros, one third of which would come from the Serbian budget and the rest from a World Bank loan.
“Corridor 10 is in Serbia’s strategic interest,” said Mrkonjic, “nothing will prevent us from finishing it, not even the world economic crisis.”
Mrkonjic, who visited a construction site in south Serbia near border with Macedonia, said that all three yet unfinished Serbian sections of Corridor 10 — the part through Vojvodina north of Belgrade, in the south from Nis to Dimitrovgrad at the border with Bulgaria, and from the Macedonian border to Leskovac – would be completed according to the time table.
Corridor 10 , one of the pan-European traffic corridors from Austria to Greece, goes through Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia. It includes a 2,528 kilometres rail network and some 2,300 kilometres of motorway.
It was included into a group of pan-European corridors after the end of wars in former Yugoslavia, at the conference in Helsinki in 1997.
(Reporting by Nikola Lazic) Balkaninsight
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