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17 August 2021, 16:19

Plans to borrow money from EDB, China Export-Import Bank to reconstruct Belarusian roads

MINSK, 17 August (BelTA) – The Transport and Communications Ministry intends to borrow money from the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) and the Export-Import Bank of China for the sake of reconstructing Belarusian motorways, BelTA learned from Head of the Central Office for Automobile Roads of the Belarusian Transport and Communications Ministry Aleksandr Golovnev on 17 August.

The official said: “As for international credit resources, we are now working to substitute lost revenues. In particular, we are in intensive negotiations with the Eurasian Development Bank, which is interested in financing [the reconstruction of] the M3 motorway in the section between Minsk and Pleshchenitsy. We intend to launch this project next year.”

In his words, negotiations are also in progress with the Export-Import Bank of China for the sake of raising money to reconstruct the P46 motorway. The project will include the construction of a bypass road in Polotsk and a new bridge over the Dvina River.
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