September 15 (SeeNews) - Bosnia and Herzegovina's Serb Republic said on Thursday it launched the construction of a 20-kilometre motorway section from Bijeljina to Raca.
The motorway section, which will be financed by the governments of the Serb Republic and Serbia, will be part of a planned motorway that will link the capitals of Bosnia and Serbia, the entity's government said in a Facebook post.
In August, Serbia donated 10 million euro ($9.97 million) to the Serb Republic for the construction of the motorway section from Bijeljina to Raca, Bosnian media reported earlier. Serbia has announced it would donate about 100 million euro for the construction of the motorway section.
Earlier this year, Autoputevi RS, the state-owned motorway operator of the Serb Republic, said it awarded a 258.2 million marka ($131.8 million/132 million euro) contract for the design and construction of the Bijeljina-Raca section to a consortium comprising local Integral Inzenjering, Institut za Gradevinarstvo and Serbia's Srbijaautoput.
The Serb Republic is one of two autonomous entities that form Bosnia and Herzegovina. The other one is the Federation.
(1 euro = 1.95583 marka)