SPLIT: SEMINAR ON ADRIATIC-IONIAN HIGHWAY

SPLIT, May 10 (Hina) - An international seminar on the Adriatic- Ionian highway and its effect on Croatia's economic development was held in Split on Friday. #L# Of the 1,600 kilometres of the highway, 35 percent should pass through Croatia. Part of the route overlaps with the Split-Zagreb highway, and that section is not disputable. However, the section from Split to Dubrovnik has not been agreed on yet, it was said at the seminar. The Adriatic-Ionian highway is a corridor running along parts of the Adriatic and Ionian coasts from Italy through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Albania to Greece. The president of a state commission in charge of the construction of the highway, Hamo Cokljat, is confident that the design of the Split-Dubrovnik section would start by year's end. The Split seminar was attended by experts from the countries through which the highway is to pass. (hina) sp sb