Bijeljina-Raca Highway Being Built, Serbia to Finance It with EUR 100 Million

The construction of the highway section from Bijeljina to Raca, 20 kilometers long, began today in the Velika Obarska settlement, and the works should be completed in two and a half to three years.

The Bijeljina-Raca section is an extension of the highway from Belgrade to Sarajevo.

That highway will link to the new bridge on the Sava on the border with Serbia and the Kuzmin-Sremska Raca section of 18 kilometers in Serbia.

The ceremony on the occasion of the opening of the works, on the Day of Serb Unity, Freedom and the National Flag, a joint holiday of Serbia and Republika Srpska, was attended by the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, the Serbian member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, and the president of RS, Zeljka Cvijanovic.

Vucic said that, at the time of a difficult economic crisis in the whole world, the sum of EUR 100 million provided by Serbia for the financing of the construction of the road from Bijeljina to Raca, was not small, but that he was happy that infrastructure was being built that would connect Republika Srpska and Serbia and enable the arrival of investors, a quicker flow of people and goods.

He emphasized that the road section in Serbia would be completed within a year at the most and that the bridge on the Sava had already been completed. – This will mean life for Semberija – Vucic said.

Dodik said that he was grateful to Serbia for the help it provided to Republika Srpska in building roads.

He pointed out that, within the next four to five years, Banjaluka would be connected with Belgrade by highway and that he hoped that Republika Srpska would soon be part of the Open Balkans initiative.

Vlada Republike Srbije

Predsedništvo Republike Srbije

Predsjedništvo BiH

Government of RS

President of Serbia

Presidency of BiH

Aleksandar Vučić

Milorad Dodik

Željka Cvijanović

Bijeljina Rača highway

Open Balkans

Sava bridge

Belgrade Banjaluka highway