Contracts signed for new Hungarian border crossing | 19:48 | Beta

BELGRADE -- Monday A 9.2 million euro agreement on construction of a new Yugoslavia-Hungary border crossing at Horgos was signed in Belgrade today.

The contract was signed by the director of the Federal Property Bureau, Dragomir Popov, and the director of the European Agency for Reconstruction, Richard Zink.

Construction is to begin in December and is expected to be complete in 20 months.

The new crossing, four hundred metres west of the existing checkpoint, will have three entry and three exit lanes, an 84,000 square metre customs facility and a 44,000 square metre truck terminal.

Describing the project as important to Serbia and Montenegro and the region as a whole, Zink said the Horgos crossing would be the main gate to Europe once Hungary joins the EU in 2004.

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