June 17 (SeeNews) - Serbia plans to start the construction of the first section of a motorway connecting Belgrade to Bosnia's capital Sarajevo in July, prime minister Ana Brnabic said on Monday.
The government has already started preliminary works on the 17 km Sremska Raca-Kuzmin section of the motorway, Brnabic said, as quoted in a government statement.
A total of 120 million euro ($135 million) will be invested in the construction of the section, 5 million euro were invested in the development of project documentation, while a new bridge on the Sava river will cost 100 million euro, Brnabic said.
Moreover, the government plans to invest 25 million euro in the development of project documentation for the second section of the motorway, which will link Pozega to Kotroman via Uzice, she added.
In December, the Serbian government signed a 250 million euro contract for the construction of the Sremska Raca-Kuzmin and the preparation of the project documentation of the Pozega-Kotroman-Uzice section with Turkish civil engineering company Tasyapi.
($ = 0.8896 euro)