ZAGREB, June 16 (Hina) - Croatian Maritime Affairs, Transport and Communications Minister Roland Zuvanic and Slovene Transport Minister Jakob Presecnik on Monday signed a memorandum on joint inspections of tankers in northern Adriatic
ports whose purpose is to protect the maritime environment.
ZAGREB, June 16 (Hina) - Croatian Maritime Affairs, Transport and
Communications Minister Roland Zuvanic and Slovene Transport
Minister Jakob Presecnik on Monday signed a memorandum on joint
inspections of tankers in northern Adriatic ports whose purpose is
to protect the maritime environment. #L#
The two ministers spoke in Zagreb about harmonising activities in
constructing a highway on the Phyrin section of the 10th pan-
European corridor from Graz via Maribor to Zagreb.
Zuvanic said Slovenes had been presented a Croatian government
four-year national programme of road construction and amounts for
the construction.
Border crossings with Slovenia are important for Croatia,
particularly Macelj, Rupe, Pasjak and Dragonja, while the Bregana
crossing issue was solved by constructing the Zagreb-Bregana
highway, Zuvanic said. Expert working groups will meet to work on
solving the border crossing issues, he added.
The Slovene minister said that due to a budgetary revision, the
country was preparing a new national road-building programme into
which some sections towards Croatia would be included, not
contained in the previous programme. The reason for including new
sections is an increase in traffic between Croatia and Slovenia, so
"the construction of road sections connecting the two countries
will be intensified," he added.
Working groups and inter-state commissions will also intensify
talks regarding these sections to determine the exact locations of
border crossings, he said.
Presecnik told reporters the two ministers also spoke about the
possibility of opening a road from Rijeka via Rupa and Ilirska
Bistrica to Postojna for the transport of hazardous material and
heavy loads. He added such material would not be transported during
the tourist season.
Regarding the Phyrin highway towards Croatia, Presecnik said the
construction of a section of the highway from Maribor to Ptuj had
already been included in the old road construction programme, but
the construction had been interrupted after the discovery of an
archaeological location in Hajdine. The problem should be solved by
September so construction works could be completed in 2007 or 2008,
after which the section towards the Croatian border could start
being built, the minister said.
Zuvanic added the Zagreb-Macelj highway should be finished by
2007.
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