(ANSA) - BELGRADE, 09 LUG - China and Serbia have a signed a
commercial agreement for the reconstruction and modernization of
the railway Belgrade-Budapest, worth almost one billion euro, at
the at the summit of China and Central and Eastern Europe, held
in the Bulgarian capital during the last weekend.
The agreement is worth 943 million euro and concerns the part
of the railway between Novi Sad, Subotica until the Hungarian
border at Kelebija. The funds will fully cover the works on this
part of the rail link.
The Serbian prime minister, Ana Brnabic, noted that the
modernization of the Belgrade-Budapest railway, jointly
implemented by Serbia, Hungary and China, "is the first
cross-border project" developed under the so-called 16+1
China-East and Central Europe cooperation mechanism "and is
crucial for infrastructure connectivity," a statement of the
Serbian government said. (ANSA).
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