Bechtel

WASHINGTON, - Serbian Ambassador to the US Marko Djuric has announced that he had spoken with the American-Serbian Business Council's (ASBC) Board Chairman and Bechtel Regional and Corporate Relations President Ambassador Stuart Jones to discuss specific projects.

After a protest by archaeologists in Skopje on Monday, MPs shelved a controversial legal change that would have bypassed any state decision-making over any archaeological finds along the routes of new highways that are due to be built.

Archaeologists are set to protest in front of parliament in Skopje on Monday over a proposed legal change that would bypass any state decision-making over any archaeological finds made during construction work on a set of highways to be built by the Turkish-US giant Bechtel-ENKA.

Marjan Ivanov, former manager of Euro Consulting, the company that has been engaged to supervise the construction of stretches of the cross-European highway corridors 8 and 10d in North Macedonia, is a suspect in a fraud investigation related to the former government's grandiose revamp of the capital, 'Skopje 2014', BIRN has learned.

On December 6, 2018, prosecutors in Armenia charged a Macedonian national called Branislav Dimitrijevic with "large-scale fraud" during construction of a north-south highway, as team leader for the French-Spanish consortium Safege-Eptisa.

Kosovo's then Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, called it one of the best infrastructural projects in the Balkans on the day it was inaugurated.

But the 61-kilometer-long motorway linking Kosovo and North Macedonia continues to yield controversies and corruption claims.

Bechtel looks set to clinch yet another highway deal in the Balkans, and transparency advocates are concerned.

Refugees fleeing the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan were flown in to Pristina airport on Sunday evening, where they received medical check-ups before being sent onwards to the town of Ferizaj/ Urosevac.

He said this in a discussion led with Serbian Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic, this ministry said.
"We are happy that things are going in a positive direction and we will continue to support the process. Serbia has a leading position in the region and is important for maintaining stability," Godfrey said.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will attend the start of the construction of a $ 745 million worth road.
Opposition representatives, on the other hand, oppose the construction of the highway, saying it is unnecessary, but also too expensive project.
One of the leaders of the Alliance for Serbia, Dragan Djilas, opposes the construction of the Moravian Corridor.