Belan said the IMF Mission has welcomed the country's efforts to improve the sustainability of its debt, saying that it will be reduced to a more reasonable level of 56 percent of GDP in 2023, Belan said.
"This is confirmed in the latest IMF reports, at the moment when we are completing the demanding construction of the first section of the highway and creating plans for the construction of the next sections," he said.
He vowed that "there is no doubt about the continuation of the highway construction," adding that "this is a good opportunity to remind everyone that our plan for the next year, together with our Chinese partners, is to successfully complete the construction of the most demanding and the most important section, from our capital city Podgorica to the city of Kolasin, an important winter tourism center, in the country's north."
Belan acknowledged that there was initial suspicion toward the construction of the highway, saying "when we announced this project, part of the domestic and international public claimed that it was an 'empty story' and political marketing. The government was under pressure to prove that the highway will be built."
But as impressive bridges emerged with tunnels and passages, he said the government is now "under a different kind of pressure from our citizens, to build the highway as soon as possible. Today's pressure proves we were right at first."
Belan calls the highway a "support, basis, means of development" because "as the backbone of the future modern traffic network in Montenegro, it will help us reduce traffic accidents and increase the safety and comfort of trips."
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