'Sarajevo-Belgrade highway construction not in jeopardy'

Minister told the Turkish diplomat that the ministry he leads has formed a working group to start initial talks with teams from Serbia on the location of a bridge that would connect the two countries on a part of the Sarajevo-Belgrade highway.

Representatives of other institutions will get involved with this project soon, the Ministry of Transport and Communications said.

Turkey expressed readiness to financially support the highway construction, leaving it to Bosnia and Serbia to decide on the routes that would connect their two respective capital cities.

After Bosnia’s two semi-autonomous entities, the Republika Srpska (RS) and the Federation (FBiH), failed to agree on one of two possible options, Turkey said it would finance the construction of both routes, via the northern city of Tuzla and Visegrad in the east of the country.

Minister Jusko’s meetings with Serbia’s Minister for Construction, Transport and Infrastructure and Turkish Minister for Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications will take place in the near future, the ministry said.