CROATIA AND HUNGARY STRENGTHEN COOPERATION IN ROAD TRANSPORT

( Editorial: --> 4452 ) MOHACS, Apr 3 (Hina) - A memorandum on cooperation in road transport was signed in Mohacs, Hungary, Friday, by Croatian and Hungarian Transport Ministers Zeljko Luzavec and Karoly Lotz. The memorandum primarily refers to the development of corridor V-c Budapest-Osijek-Ploce, i.e. the building of 85 km of motorway from Ilacka, Hungary, across Slavonia, Croatia, to the Croatian border with Bosnia-Herzegovina. The said corridor was determined last June at the Third All- European Transport Conference held in Helsinki. Croatian territory was then included in the network of transport corridors of significance for all Europe. Preparations for the building of the motorway should begin this year. Croatia's Luzavec said the memorandum was significant for Croatia's future economic development. The Transport Minister recalled that 80 km of a motorway connecting Rijeka, Zagreb and the Hungarian border were built in Croatia last year. The signing of the memorandum should also improve railway connections. The two countries also confirmed an interest in establishing and improving transport connections between Central Europe and the Adriatic Sea, alongside the extant Budapest-Zagreb- Rijeka motorway. (hina) ha 031456 MET apr 98