BAJAKOVO, May 7 (Hina) - The Zagreb-Belgrade highway was opened at 12:45 hours on Tuesday after it had been closed for traffic for four years and seven months. The highway was opened at the Bajakovo-Batrovci border crossing. The
opening ceremony was attended by the commander of U.N. military force in eastern Slavonia (UNTAES), General Joseph Schoups, and the U.N. Transitional Administrator of eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Srijem, General Jacques Paul Klein, who cut the ribbon.
BAJAKOVO, May 7 (Hina) - The Zagreb-Belgrade highway was opened at
12:45 hours on Tuesday after it had been closed for traffic for
four years and seven months. The highway was opened at the
Bajakovo-Batrovci border crossing. The opening ceremony was
attended by the commander of U.N. military force in eastern
Slavonia (UNTAES), General Joseph Schoups, and the U.N.
Transitional Administrator of eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western
Srijem, General Jacques Paul Klein, who cut the ribbon. #L#
The Croatian representative in the UNTAES and Vice Premier
Ivica Kostovic, who was also present at the ceremony, said that the
opening of the highway was a first step in the reintegration of the
occupied Croatian territory into Croatia's legal and constitutional
system as well as the first concrete proof of the normalization of
relations between Croatia and Yugoslavia. Kostovic expressed hope
that today's event would contribute to the further normalization of
bilateral relations.
Yugoslav Transport Minister Zoran Vujovic said that the
opening of the Zagreb-Belgrade highway was the realization of a
memorandum the Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic and his
Yugoslav counterpart Milan Milutinovic signed in Zagreb last March.
Other technical questions regarding the issue are being
solved, Vujovic added.
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