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Belgrade ring road section opens

Belgrade, 10 November 2008

Serbian President Boris Tadic today opened a section of the ring road around Belgrade, from Orlovaca to Ostruznica. Also present were Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic, Deputy Prime Minister Jovan Krkobabic, Minister for the National Investment Plan Verica Kalanovic and Belgrade Mayor Dragan Djilas.

Tadic, who is also president of the National Infrastructure Council, today said that Serbia’s traffic and economic networking with the EU is a precondition for the EU integration process.

He pointed out that the ring road will also contribute to Serbia’s development.

Serbia has to provide funds necessary for development in order to surmount the present world financial crisis and avoid its future consequences, stressed Tadic.

The President said that the completion of the ring road is a great achievement for the road constructors, who regained the reputation they lost during the previous years.

I want to thank the workers; this is a great victory, their victory. I know how hard it was for them. Without you we could not have completed this job. Our engineers have also showed that our construction companies can work efficiently and thus regained everyone’s trust, stressed the President.

According to him, this day is primarily a triumph of workers who can now move forward, noting that a celebration will be held when Corridor 10 reaches completion.

Tadic said that contractors are now facing the arduous task of completing sectors five and six, from Orlovaca to Bubanj Potok, on which a number of bridges and tunnels are to be built.

Belgrade Mayor Dragan Djilas thanked all those who in the past several months worked day and night to complete the ring road and put this section of Corridor 10 into use.

The key thing for Belgrade is to intensify the works on the ring road and complete the section from Dobanovci to Batajnica, as well as sectors five and six, said Djilas stressing that once this is completed, a portion of the traffic will be transferred from the city to alleviate the traffic jams.

He recalled that the city has taken part in similar important projects in the past and announced the construction of a new bridge for Belgrade in 2009, as well as other infrastructure projects, including Prokop railway station.

We expect the state to help us make Belgrade a proper metropolis, because when Belgrade develops it pushes Serbia forward, he said.

The ring road around Belgrade will be 69 kilometres long and divided into three sections: from Batajnica to Dobanovci, from Dobanovci to Bubanj Potok and from Bubanj Potok to Starcevo and Pancevo.

Since 1990 a total of RSD 9.7 billion has been invested in the ring road constructed by the Planum and Mostogradnja construction companies.

This is the key project on the trans-European Corridor 10 and is of essential importance as it will help divert the main portion of transit traffic from Belgrade proper.

The ring road will be a link between the E75 and E70 corridors, the first one linking Western Europe with Greece and Turkey and the second one Western Europe and Romania.