The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, announced tonight that a contract for the construction of the first section of the Belgrade-Nis high-speed railway will be signed in less than two months. Aleksandar Vucic stated that he hopes that it will be signed in the presence of the highest European officials and that he hopes that it will be before the end of September.
“Before the end of September, I think on September 29 and 30, I expect the signing of the contract for the first section of the Belgrade-Nis high-speed railway, where trains will run between 160 and 200 kilometers per hour. Where the journey from Belgrade to Nis with stops at stations will take two and a half hours, and I think less than two and a half hours,” Vucic said in Nis, adding: “It will be better than going by car from the center of Belgrade to centerof Nis.”
He added that faster, better and more comfortable traffic will be established.
Vucic said that the last thresholds on the fast line Belgrade-Novi Sad near Sremski Karlovci will be set by the end of October or November, after which the works on the signalization will begin.
“Let’s do everything for another two or three months, do all the tests at 200 kilometers per hour and everything will go as it should, so that in February we can go from Belgrade to Novi Sad for half an hour. It is faster than Berlin-Hamburg which takes an hour. That is another country, another Serbia,” the president pointed out.
Vucic reminded that the best Swiss wagons were bought for the mentioned section, which were paid 700 million euros.
“Double-decker compositions, the most tidy and most beautiful in the world, more beautiful than the French ones, more beautiful than everything. That will be in Serbia,” the president emphasized.
Vucic said that he was proud that we managed to change in Serbia, and that he knew that when he started the reforms, he would encounter people’s displeasure, but that it was the only cure, because, as he stated, “cancer can’t be cured with aspirin and andol, but with the most difficult drugs, chemotherapy, courage and determination.”
He reminded that Serbia increased its GDP by more than 55 percent in just eight years, as well as that the minimum wage in 2012 was 159 euros, and that we plan to end this year with 300 euros, which is an increase of almost 100 percent.
“You can love me or not, but these are the facts,” said the Serbian president, adding:
“If our average salary in Serbia today is 556 euros in March, we calculated that it will be 612 euros at the end of March. It will be 770 euros in Belgrade, today the average net salary in Belgrade is 702 euros,” N1 reports.
