Albanian Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Edmond Haxhinasto said there was a consensus for the establishment of a transport network across the Balkan region.
The minister called for a reassessment of the railway connection of Albania’s port of Durres, Macedonia’s Skopje and Bulgaria’s Sofia as part of the Pan-European Corridor VIII project, which was backed by the Macedonian minister during the meeting of Foreign Ministers and Ministers of Transport of the Western Balkans countries, which took place in Pristina.
According to Albanian Daily News, the ministers agreed upon a transport network, which will link the region’s capitals, economic centers and main ports by 2030.
The network includes the railway that will link Albania to Montenegro as well as Pan-European Corridor VIII project, which is meant to link Durres to the Adriatic coast to Varna at the Bulgarian Black Sea coast.
Proposals about this network shall be presented during the Vienna Summit on August 27 as priority projects, which will guarantee interconnectivity and economic growth for the region.
”Because of the financial crisis of the Euro zone, financial instruments for infrastructural projects in Southern and South-eastern Europe have not been made available. Alongside the realistic methodology of the European Commission for infrastructural connectivity in the Western Balkans, European institutions should work for a development package of the region, ” Albanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ditmir Bushati said.
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