Enhanced collaboration between ministries leads to concrete results

Quality, modern, and safe road infrastructure is a prerequisite for the development of the tourism and economic potential of this region. This was the common conclusion of Minister of Capital Investments Ervin Ibrahimović and Minister of Infrastructure and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Kosovo Liburn Aliu.

The working meeting, attended by State Secretary of the Ministry of Capital Investments Admir Šahmanović, Director of the Directorate for State Roads Miroslav Mašić, Ambassador of Kosovo in Montenegro Ariana Zherka Hoxha, Director of the Traffic Administration Radomir Vuksanović, and expert teams from both ministries, took place in the municipality of Rožaje. At the outset of the discussion, the President of the Municipality, Rahman Husović, welcomed the guests and briefly touched on the traditional ties between the populations of these regions and the necessity of faster and improved communication.

As Deputy Prime Minister Ervin Ibrahimović reminded in his opening statement, by signing a memorandum of cooperation for the implementation of key infrastructure projects, both states expressed their readiness to intensively collaborate and concretize further activities related to the development of technical and project documentation for the Plav-Dečani road routes and the project for the construction of the Rožaje-Peć tunnel, as well as the Andrijevica-Peć-Pristina highway section. Today's meeting of the working teams of the two ministries is an opportunity to inspect a part of the Plav-Dečani road route and to agree on further activities that the teams will carry out.

To mutual satisfaction, it was agreed that the feasibility study for the construction project of the Rožaje-Peć tunnel will be financed by the Government of Kosovo, confirming the intention and determination to further develop this project, Ibrahimović emphasized. Minister of Capital Investments Ervin Ibrahimović also informed those present that project documentation is currently being prepared, and that funds for the construction of the Plav-Dečani project road are planned in next year's budget draft.

During the inspection of the route, a meeting was held with the President of the Municipality of Plav, Nihad Canović, who also welcomed the guests from Kosovo, pointing out the necessity of building roads to contribute to faster and safer passenger and cargo traffic.

Kosovo's Minister of Infrastructure and Environmental Protection expressed satisfaction with the cooperation so far, emphasizing the readiness of the ministry to work intensively with colleagues from Montenegro to implement these projects in the coming period.

Minister of Capital Investments, along with his team, also visited the start of the landslide remediation works at the Donje Luge site on the Andrijevica-Plav road.