CROATIAN TRANSPORT MINISTER ATTENDS UKRAINE CONFERENCE

ZAGREB, Oct 23 (Hina) - Croatian Maritime Affairs, Transportation and Communications Minister Roland Zuvanic on Wednesday spoke at the Ministerial Conference in Kiev on the fifth pan-European Corridor. Zuvanic spoke about the activities Croatia intended to implement to advance the situation in roads and railway infrastructure on the V.b. and V.c. European corridors which pass through Croatia. #L# The fifth pan-European road corridor connects Venice-Trieste- Ljubljana-Budapest-Bratislava-Uzgorod-Lvov-Kiev while the V.b. branch heads in the direction of Budapest-Zagreb-Rijeka and the V.c branch along Budapest-Osijek-Sarajevo-Ploce. As the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transportation and Communications reported, the most important task for Croatia in this regard is to complete the Rijeka-Zagreb-Gorican Highway by the end of 2004 and prepare the relevant documents to construct the highway from the border with Hungary via Osijek, B-H to Ploce by the end of 2004. Minister Zuvanic will conduct several bilateral meetings with his colleagues from Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Slovenia during the conference, the Ministry reported. An agreement with Hungary has already been signed concerning the tangent points of the Gorican-Letenye highway along the V.b. corridor and in that regard the construction of a bridge across the Mura river. Minister Zuvanic will discuss the construction of the V.c. corridor with his colleagues from Hungary and Bosnia. He will also discuss harmonising traffic connections with his Slovenian colleague Minister Jakov Presecnik on the Rijeka-Rupa- Triest Highway, the Zagreb-Bregana-Ljubljana Highway, the Pula- Dragonja-Koper Highway and the Zagreb-Macelj-Ptuj Highway. (hina) sp it