Agreement on construction of Nis-Pristina highway to be signed on Thursday – Construction of section to Plocnik to begin in 2020

The Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure of Serbia, Zorana Mihajlovic, has announced that the agreement on the construction of the Nis-Merdare-Pristina highway would be signed on September 12.

– We are signing an agreement on the construction of this highway, as well as an agreement on the financing in the amount of EUR 100 million and an agreement on an investment grant worth EUR 40.6 million, for the first section, Nis-Plocnik, the construction of which will begin next year – she emphasized.

Mihajlovic added that the European Commissioner for Transport, Violeta Bulc, was coming to visit Serbia and that the two of them would open the seat of the Transport Community in Belgrade on September 13.

– To us, the seat of the Transport Community in Belgrade means that we are talking about big corridors, about harmonization with the EU and its regulations and about new traffic connections – the minister added.

Ministarstvo građevinarstva, saobraćaja i infrastrukture Republike Srbije

European Commissariat for Transport

Zorana Mihajlovic

Nis Pristina highway

Nis Plocnik section

Transport Community

Violeta Bulc