DOBRA, June 26 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic opened two new highway sections for traffic on Thursday, one on the Zagreb-Rijeka and the other on the Zagreb-Split highway, in the total length of 46 km and worth 2.2 billion
kuna (EUR293 million).
DOBRA, June 26 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic opened two
new highway sections for traffic on Thursday, one on the Zagreb-
Rijeka and the other on the Zagreb-Split highway, in the total
length of 46 km and worth 2.2 billion kuna (EUR293 million). #L#
On the highway connecting the capital and the northern Adriatic
port of Rijeka, Mesic opened a 10 km section from Vukova Gorica to
Bosiljevo which cost 320 million kuna.
On the highway from Zagreb to the seaport of Split in the south, the
President opened the 35 km Bosiljevo 2-Mala Kapela Tunnel section,
which cost 1.9 billion kuna.
Prime Minister Ivica Racan and parliament president Zlatko Tomcic
were also in attendance.
Mesic said highways were crucial for making Croatia competitive.
Highways are not built with cash from the state budget and building
them would not be possible without long-term foreign loans, on
which interest is favourable due to Croatia's good credit rating,
he added.
Mesic said Croatia's model of investing and highway building was
currently the best in Europe. A highway to southernmost Dubrovnik
will be finished by 2008 and all envisioned highways in the country
by 2010, he said.
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