BELGRADE (Serbia), May 11 (SeeNews) – Serbian infrastructure minister Zorana Mihajlovic said on Thursday the government expects to sign road and railway construction deals with a combined value of 3.2 billion euro ($3.5 billion) with China during the upcoming visit of prime minister Aleksandar Vucic to the Asian country.
The government will sign a $700 million deal for the overhaul of the Novi Sad-Subotica section of the railway line connecting Belgrade to Budapest, as well as contracts for the construction of the Preljina-Pozega and Pozega-Boljare stretches of the Bar-Belgrade motorway, Mihajlovic said in a video file posted on the website of Serbian public broadcaster Radio Televizija Srbije (RTS).
In this way, the total value of the infrastructure projects carried out by Serbia and China will rise to 5.6 billion euro, Mihajlovic said.
The overhaul works of the Novi Sad-Subotica section of the Belgrade-Budapest railway line will hopefully begin this year, she added.
Vucic will meet Chinese prime minister Li Keqiang and president Xi Jinping on May 16 in Beijing and will also discuss the privatisation of copper miner and smelter RTB Bor and the launch of a direct Belgrade-Beijing flight, Mihajlovic noted.
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