VUKOVAR-RECONSTRUCTION-Gospodarstvo/poslovanje/financije STATE INVESTED EUR162 MILLION TO RECONSTRUCT VUKOVAR - MINISTER VUKOVAR, Dec 13 (Hina) - Croatia has invested about 1.2 billion kuna (EUR162 million) in the reconstruction of
Vukovar, which is ten percent of the funds the state has invested in the reconstruction of previously war-struck areas, Assistant Public Works, Reconstruction and Construction Minister Ljudevit Herceg said in the eastern town on Friday.
VUKOVAR, Dec 13 (Hina) - Croatia has invested about 1.2 billion kuna
(EUR162 million) in the reconstruction of Vukovar, which is ten
percent of the funds the state has invested in the reconstruction of
previously war-struck areas, Assistant Public Works,
Reconstruction and Construction Minister Ljudevit Herceg said in
the eastern town on Friday. #L#
The competent ministry expects housing reconstruction in Vukovar
to be completed in 2004, Herceg told reporters.
Earlier today he signed on the ministry's behalf contracts with 83
construction companies which will renovate 750 houses in Vukovar-
Srijem County, including 555 in Vukovar, in the 2002-3 season.
The project is worth some 200 million kuna (EUR27 million) and its
deadline is 30 July 2003.
Some 1,300 flats are currently being reconstructed in Vukovar.
(EUR1 = 7.4 kuna)
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