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Zajecar ring road opens

Belgrade/Zajecar, 16 May 2005

Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica and Minister of Capital Investment Velimir Ilic opened a ring road on the M-25 Negotin-Zajecar-Knjazevac road near Zajecar and announced talks on possibilities of further construction on Corridor 10.

“We all know what roads and ring roads mean for one country”, Kostunica said and added that this clearly shows the Serbian government’s resolve to contribute to the development of all regions.

According to Kostunica, after getting a positive feasibility study, Serbia has stepped into the EU, which is why it will need more roads such as this one.

Minister of Capital Investment Velimir Ilic said that the eastern ring road around Zajecar is important for the whole region, and added that €2.5 million was invested in the 3.6 kilometre-road, noting that first works started back in 1989.

Ilic said that 104 million dinars have been invested in the Zajecar municipality during the past year.

He explained that another 11 kilometres of road from Zajecar to Bor need to be completed, for which the government has set aside 350 million dinars. Ilic also announced the beginning of works on the ring road near Kraljevo in the near future.

Accompanying Kostunica and Ilic was Minister of Economy Predrag Bubalo.

On their visit to the Timok region, government members visited a hydroelectric plant in Gamzigrad. On that occasion, Kostunica said that the hydroelectric plant started operations in 1909, which means that Serbia was in Europe at that time just as it is now.

Speaking about the proposal for the meeting with Kosovo's Prime Minister Bajram Kosumi, Kostunica reiterated that all parliamentary parties in Serbia have been holding consultations on the issue of Kosovo for more than a year now and that the Serbian parliament unanimously adopted the Serbian government's Plan for a political solution to the situation in Kosovo-Metohija.

Kostunica pointed out that dialogue has already been established through various working groups, but that it has to be raised to a higher level. For that reason, the proposed talks with the Kosovo Prime Minister will include technical and political issues as well, because both of them are equally important.

The Serbian Prime Minister stressed that in next several days preparations will be completed on the basis of which Kosumi will be given an official invitation for talks.

He said that standards and the situation of human rights must be taken into consideration and that's why it has been proposed that the talks be held in Kosovo-Metohija. Prizren was chosen as a town that depicts all the problems that exist in the province on a local level and in which during the last year's March pogrom the Serb population and the cultural heritage suffered equal damages.

According to Kostunica, the assessment of standards achieved in Kosovo-Metohija is currently underway, which will later open the issue of Kosovo's future status. On the grounds of these assessments, the Serbian government will take a stance on that issue.