BELGRADE (Srbija), September 6 (SeeNews) – The Nis-Merdare-Pristina motorway section, connecting southern Serbia with Kosovo, is planned to be completed by 2020, Serbia's government said on Tuesday.
The technical and project documentation for the section will be ready at the beginning of 2017, and the implementation of the project will begin right after, the government said in a statement quoting transport minister Zorana Mihajlovic.
The documentation is being financed by the European Fund for the Balkans.
Mihajlovic also said that the total value of infrastructure projects currently underway in Serbia amounts to 5.5 billion euro ($6.1 billion).
She added that on March 1, 2017, construction will begin on a section of pan-European Transport Corridor XI, between the towns of Surcin and Obrenovac.
In June, Serbia and China signed a $233.69 million deal for this leg of the corridor which runs through Serbia from the northeastern border with Romania to the southwestern border with Montenegro.
The Nis-Merdare-Pristina section is part of a project stretching to Albania's capital Tirana and the Adriatic port of Durres.
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