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RIJEKA DUBROVACKA, Oct 9 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman
on Friday afternoon opened the construction works of the Dubrovnik
Bridge by laying a cylinder containing a charter with information
about the bridge into the bridge's foundation structure.
The bridge will run over the Ombla river delta from Rijeka
Dubrovacka (a town near Dubrovnik, south Adriatic), and will
shorten the trip to Dubrovnik by about 12 kilometres.
This great enterprise is also proof of the Government's
decisiveness to solve all life problems of Croatia, Tudjman said.
The 481 metre-long and 52 metre-tall bridge worth DM37million is
expected to be completed by the middle of 2001.
The constructors are Germany's Walter Bau company and Split-based
Konstruktor.
Congratulating the architects and constructors, Tudjman stressed
that this bridge will connect Dubrovnik with the rest of Croatia,
but also Croatia with the rest of the world.
This bridge, which we are constructing with our friends from
Bavaria, is the best answer to those who claim that this government
does not care about integrating into Europe, Tudjman said.
Recalling that the construction of a highway will be started soon in
the Zagreb area, Tudjman said that the highway will also enable
integration with western countries, including the United States,
but will also connect parts of Croatia.
This government, he said, is the government of the Croatian people
which takes care about the interests of the Croatian people.
We must, however, be aware of the fact that we have only just come
out of a debilitating war and Greater-Serbian aggression which had
a particular impact on the Dubrovnik area. Despite this, Tudjman
stressed, Croatia has managed to stabilise financially and
politically.
We have imposed ourselves upon the world, it has accepted us,
including those who had not wanted an independent Croatia.
We have won political, diplomatic and military battles which
surprised the world. For the first time, Croats did not fight
against each other, and we proved that without us, nothing can be
done in this region, but also, that we will not submit to the will of
others, Tudjman stressed.
We have taken our fate in our own hands, and we shall not let it go any
more. Croatia will be as we make it ourselves, Tudjman concluded.
Present at the opening were also Reconstruction and Development
Minister Jure Radic, director of the Croatian Roads
Administration, Aleksandar Caklovic, Walter Bau's director Joerg
Eschenbach, Dubrovnik's Mayor Vido Bogdanovic, and the
Government's Commissioner for the Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Luka
Siljeg.
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