Minister Tomislav Momirovic said that, if the Rio Tinto’s project were realized, salaries in Loznica, Krupanj, Mali Zvornik and Badanovci would increase.
The Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure stated that salaries in these places would be 20 to 30 percent higher than in Lazarevac, Lajkovac and Obrenovac.
“When such a big company comes, you enter the global security system. That means there is no more war. But those people who aggressively attack that project, they know it, but it doesn’t matter to them. Their real goal is to close Kolubara, to close Kostolac, to close the Nikola Tesla thermal power plant and to privatize Djerdap for little money,” Momirovic said during a tour of Lajkovac.
He assessed that these are organizations that are financed from abroad and that “do their dishonest job honestly”.
“To be completely open, we will never allow that, because that is a precondition for the economic development of this country, and we want them to pay the economic standard, and then, of course, cultural and social growth, and we will insist on that,” the minister said.
Momirovic said that the government knows that it is much better to plant a forest there instead of building a highway.
“Of course, it would be much more pleasing to honey and rabbits, but we have to invest in the future, in the economy of this country and we will not let it go, and everything that has not been invested in previous decades, which has enabled the social standard of our citizens it is falling to the lowest level, which was a reality until the President of the Republic took over the government of the Republic of Serbia and until this political program began to be realized, that will not happen again,” Momirovic said.
He pointed out that the economy of Serbia is moving forward, and that this is about billions of euros that are directly related to the environmental future of this country.
“They will continue and there are many more of them than ever in the history of this country. If it seems to people that they are going slowly, I take part of the responsibility, because I lead them, but they are such big and revolutionary investments. They will be so qualitative to make a step forward, so that it cannot start with a single shot of the fingers,” said Momirovic.
He estimated that people will very soon see that from the environmental point of view, this country is changing not for the better, but ten steps for the better, B92 reports.
