Reconstruction of Kosovska Mitrovica bridge starts – EUR 1.2 million set aside

The revitalization of the bridge on the river Ibar in Kosovska Mitorvica and the access routes which will enable free traffic between the north and the south of the city by mid-January has started. The EU has set aside EUR 1.2 million for the project.

The revitalization has begun in accordance with the recent agreement between the director of the Government of Serbia’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric, and the chief of Pristina’s negotiation team, Edita Tahiri.

Djuric said, following the meeting in Brussels, that the opening of the bridge and the removal of the Peace Park would contribute to the normalization of relations between Serbs and Albanians, and the EU Office in Pristina made an almost identical announcement this morning.

The works will be supervised by the mixed work group headed by the two mayors – Goran Rakic from North Kosovska Mitrovica and Agim Bahtiri from South Kosovska Mitrovica.

The Kosovo Police, EULEX and KFOR, in accordance with their mandates, will supervise the works in order to ensure that they are being carried out peacefully.

An excavator, along with several trucks, has been brought to the south side of the bridge on the Ibar, and ten workers should start the excavation works on the access route.

The works on the north side of the Bridge, as Rakic announced, will start in a few days.

Kancelarija za Kosovo i Metohiju, Beograd

Opština Kosovska Mitrovica

reconstruction of the Ibar bridge

Ibar

bridge on the Ibar

Office for Kosovo and Metohija of the Government of Serbia

Marko Djuric

Edita Tahiri

Brussels

City of Kosovska Mitrovica

Goran Rakic

Agim Bahtiri

Kosovo Police

EULEX

KFOR