Corridor Vc starts in Budapest going via the Croatian city of Osijek and passes from the northern Croatian-Bosnian border through entire Bosnia-Herzegovina including its capital of Sarajevo and reaches the southern Croatian-Bosnian border.
Kalmeta and Dokic also discussed Croatia's plans to construct a bridge connecting the mainland and the peninsula of Peljesac passing near the coastal stretch belonging to Bosnia-Herzegovina around the town of Neum.
According to Kalmeta, the construction of the bridge should start in October and Croatia is bound by international law to enable Bosnia to have unimpeded passage from Neum to the sea. Therefore Kalmeta presented a study on the bridge construction to the Bosnian minister Dokic who said that his country would set up an expert team to evaluate the document.
Commenting on the Bosnian part of the Vc corridor, Dokic said the local authorities were drafting documentation necessary before the start of the road construction.
A feasibility study for the project should be completed by the end of October, the Bosnian minister said adding that major international banks had shown interest in financing the construction of the Bosnian section of corridor Vc.
The two ministers also discussed the navigability of the River Sava.
Dokic said that a ministerial meeting of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia-Montenegro on this topic would most probably be held in the Bosnian town of Brcko in late November. The countries are expected to sign a document on the Sava navigability which could help them in efforts to ensure assistance of international institutions for this project.
About 15 million euro are necessary to restore the river's navigability from 1990, Dokic said.