Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Tuesday attended a ceremony marking the completion of the first stage of the construction of the future Belgrade Center main railway station at Prokop, which is now open to traffic after 40 years.
Vucic marked the opening of the Prokop station by arriving with his aides on a new Stadler train, which will be connecting Belgrade and Novi Sad.
The ceremony was also attended by Deputy Prime Minister Zorana Mihajlovic, who is also minister of construction, transport and infrastructure, and Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali.
Relocating the main railway station from downtown Belgrade to Prokop is expected to take a year.
The construction works were completed within a 420-day deadline, with the EUR 25.8 million contract financed by a Kuwait Fund For Arab Economic Development loan.
Vucic: We are at a station on our journey to Europe
BELGRADE – We have finally arrived, the journey lasted over 40 years, but the works were completed within the deadline and now we have a place from where we can move on – this is about kick-starting the entire country, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said opening Belgrade’s new railway station at Prokop on Tuesday.
“The Belgrade Center station is complete – here, we are dealing with plans, speed and objectives, and this is not about trains, but about Serbia,” Vucic said.
This is about kick-starting the country and about its schedule, which is precise, Vucic said.
We finally “know where we are going and where we are going to get,” Vucic said before making a metaphoric parallel.
“The train that we have started and that is taking Serbia forward needs to take those on the left, the right and those in the centre, as well as those who have boarded as stowaway passengers,” Vucic said, adding that everyone must “pay for the ticket.”
“It is Serbia’s ticket to Europe. This is the first station. There will be no delays,” the prime minister said.
Source: Tanjug
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