The long-announced construction of the highway from Nis to Pristina, as well as the reconstruction of the railway between the two cities, are in the Agreement on Normalization of Economic Relations between Belgrade and Pristina, signed yesterday in the White House by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Provisional Institutions Avdulah Hoti.
This time, the Minister of Finance, Sinisa Mali, mentioned the railway as an important part of the agreement. According to his assessment, those two projects are very important because they will contribute to faster transport of goods and services, but also to faster connection between Pristina and Nis, and finally Belgrade.
According to the Government’s website, he singled out the completion of the construction of the highway from Nis to Pristina in the value of 1.1 billion euros.
He also said that the US Government had undertaken the financing obligation for this time, although the Minister of Transport Zorana Mihajlovic announced a few days ago that the section from Nis to Merdare would be financed partly from an investment grant, partly from a contract with the European Investment Bank and partly from a contract with European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. So it is possible that the US government will provide money for the rest of it.
Minister Mali also said that the Government of the USA undertook the obligation to provide financing for the completion of the construction and reconstruction of the railway from Nis to Pristina in the value of one billion euros.
Let us remind you, the construction of the road from Nis, through Pristina to Durres, has been prolonged several times in previous years, so the start of works has been postponed, starting in 2018. Its construction was first announced in 2015 at the meeting of the then prime ministers of Serbia and Albania, Aleksandar Vucic and Edi Rama, Juzne Vesti reports.
