Ευρεία δημοσιότητα έλαβαν στα βουλγαρικά μέσα ενημέρωσης οι
δηλώσεις του Βούλγαρου πρωθυπουργού Μπόικο Μπορίσοφ αναφορικά με την
πολιτική βούληση της κυβέρνησής του για την ταχύτερη δυνατή ολοκλήρωση
της οδικής σύνδεσης Κίρτζαλι-Κομοτηνή και της νέας σχετικής διάβασης στα
ελληνοβουλγαρικά σύνορα, όπως αναφέρει σε δημοσίευμά του το Αθηναϊκό –
Μακεδονικό Πρακτορείο Ειδήσεων.
Στο πλαίσιο αυτό, όπως είπε ο κ. Μπορίσοφ, η βουλγαρική πλευρά
είναι έτοιμη να αναλάβει την κατασκευή του εναπομείναντος τμήματος,
περίπου δύο χιλιομέτρων, στο ελληνικό τμήμα της νέας αυτής οδικής
αρτηρίας. Ο κ. Μπορίσοφ, σε δηλώσεις του από το Κίρτζαλι, ανέφερε
μάλιστα πως προτίθεται να απευθύνει σχετική πρόταση στον Έλληνα ομόλογό
του Αντώνη Σαμαρά. «Για τη (διάβαση της) Μακάζα έχω συνεννοηθεί με τον
Έλληνα πρωθυπουργό, με τον οποίο είμαστε φίλοι ακόμα από τα
αντιπολιτευτικά χρόνια.
Απλώς δεν υπάρχουν τα χρήματα για την ολοκλήρωση του ενάμισι αυτού
χιλιομέτρου» ανέφερε χαρακτηριστικά ο Βούλγαρος πρωθυπουργός. Τα
παραπάνω δήλωσε ο κ. Μπορίσοφ απαντώντας σε ερώτηση για το πότε
αναμένεται να λειτουργήσει η συνοριακή διάβαση Κίρτζαλι- Κομοτηνή, όπως
ανέφεραν στα σχετικά ρεπορτάζ τους το ιδιωτικό ραδιόφωνο Ντάρικ κι άλλα
ηλεκτρονικά μέσα ενημέρωσης. Ο Βούλγαρος πρωθυπουργός είπε ακόμη πως
«είναι αμαρτία να μείνει έτσι η δίοδος, χωρίς να λειτουργεί».
Παρά την αδιαμφισβήτητη σημασία των νέων διόδων, που άνοιξαν στα
ελληνοβουλγαρικά σύνορα τα τελευταία χρόνια, τόσο για την αλληλογνωριμία
των τοπικών κοινωνιών, όσο και για την περαιτέρω ανάπτυξη των μεταξύ
τους οικονομικών σχέσεων, ο συνοριακός σταθμός Κούλατα- Προμαχώνας, από
τον οποίο θα περάσει ο αυτοκινητόδρομος «Στρούμα» (Στρυμόνας), μετά την
ολοκλήρωσή του σε μερικά χρόνια, παραμένει η κεντρική «πύλη» της οδικής
επικοινωνίας Ελλάδας - Βουλγαρίας.
Ως πλέον πρόσφατο παράδειγμα, οι αναλυτές στη Βουλγαρία
επισημαίνουν τη μαζική «απόβαση» Βούλγαρων τουριστών, που επωφελούμενοι
ένα εορταστικό τετραήμερο στη χώρα τους, έσπευσαν να κατακλύσουν τις
ακτές της Χαλκιδικής και των άλλων παραθαλάσσιων θέρετρων της Βόρειας
Ελλάδας, στις αρχές Σεπτεμβρίου.
18/9/12
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ΣΧΕΤΙΚΑ:
«ΑΝΟΙΓΜΑ ΤΩΝ ΣΥΝΟΡΩΝ ΣΤΗ «ΜΑΚΑΖΑ» Ο ΤΙΤΛΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΡΘΡΟΥ Βουλγαρική εφημερίδα αναγγέλλει άνοιγμα του κάθετου άξονα στις 30 Ιουνίου
Μεταξύ Κομοτηνής και Μακάζα (Маказа) οι νέοι διασυνοριακοί σταθμοί ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΒΟΥΛΓΑΡΙΑΣ
**[1]Bulgaria to Pay for Greek Road Section on Border Pass
Bulgaria is ready to pave with asphalt a kilometer and a half on Greek territory on the road through the Makaza mountain pass.
The statement was made by Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, during his visit to the southern city of Kardzhali, cited by the Bulgarian National Television.
According to Borisov, this will accelerate the opening of the new cross border check point between Bulgarian and Greece.
The Bulgarian PM is to extend the proposal to his Greek counterpart Antonis Samaras.
Borisov noted that Bulgaria has been ready for quite a while with its section, but due to the economic crisis, the Greek side lacks funding to finish their construction thus the road between Kardzhali and Komotini remains closed.
The cross border points between Bulgaria and Greece now are Kulata-Promachonas, Ilinden-Exochi, Svilengrad-Ormenion, and Zlatograd-Thermes (Xanti).
The 24-km road section between Kardzhali and Podkova will be connected to the already completed road between Podkova and the Makaza Pass, thus providing a fast and direct road connection from Central Southern Bulgaria to Greece via Kardzhali.
The Ruse-Makaza road linking Romania and Greece through Central Bulgaria is supposed to be part of the Pan-European Transport Corridor No. 9 leading from Helsinki, the Baltic States, Moscow, Kiev, and Bucharest to the Greek port of Alexandroupolis on the Aegean.
However, the international transport corridor, which harbors the potential to stimulate the development of much of Bulgaria's central regions, does not function at present because the Makaza Pass in the Rhodope Mountains on the Bulgarian-Greek border remains closed.
This is in spite of numerous promises in the past five years by senior Bulgarian and Greek politicians that a border crossing point there will be opened "next year."
The delay in the opening of the Makaza Pass, which is some 20 km north of Greece's Aegean coastline, has been attributed to the slow construction of the road on the Greek side of the border. If it becomes fully operational, the Ruse-Makaza Pass road will provide the shortest route from Romania's capital Bucharest (and much of Central and Eastern Europe, for that matter) to the Aegean / Mediterranean.
On Bulgaria's territory the Ruse-Makaza Pass road (section of Pan-European Transport Corridor No. 9) goes through Ruse, Byala, Veliko Tarnovo, Dryanovo, Gabrovo, the Shipka Pass (Balkan Mountain), Kazanlak, Stara Zagora, Dimitrovgrad, Haskovo, Kardzhali, and Momchilgrad to reach Makaza. It is dubbed Road I-5 (E-85) for Bulgarian government purposes.
The recent and long-anticipated decision of the Bulgarian government to make the Ruse-Makaza road a "priority project" is justified with the need to absorb EU funds under Operational Program "Transport", which would allow faster administrative procedures for investments, land expropriation, and construction. The Bulgarian government plans to turn the road in question into a "high-speed way" (with four lanes).
The actual realization on European Transport Corridor No. 9, however, also depends on the realization of one of the most-talked about infrastructure projects in Bulgaria in the past 20 years – the construction of a tunnel under the Shipka Pass in the Stara Planina Mountain (Balkan Mountain), which is supposed to improve greatly the transport links between Northern and Southern Bulgaria along the Ruse-Makaza route.
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The statement was made by Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, during his visit to the southern city of Kardzhali, cited by the Bulgarian National Television.
According to Borisov, this will accelerate the opening of the new cross border check point between Bulgarian and Greece.
The Bulgarian PM is to extend the proposal to his Greek counterpart Antonis Samaras.
Borisov noted that Bulgaria has been ready for quite a while with its section, but due to the economic crisis, the Greek side lacks funding to finish their construction thus the road between Kardzhali and Komotini remains closed.
The cross border points between Bulgaria and Greece now are Kulata-Promachonas, Ilinden-Exochi, Svilengrad-Ormenion, and Zlatograd-Thermes (Xanti).
The 24-km road section between Kardzhali and Podkova will be connected to the already completed road between Podkova and the Makaza Pass, thus providing a fast and direct road connection from Central Southern Bulgaria to Greece via Kardzhali.
The Ruse-Makaza road linking Romania and Greece through Central Bulgaria is supposed to be part of the Pan-European Transport Corridor No. 9 leading from Helsinki, the Baltic States, Moscow, Kiev, and Bucharest to the Greek port of Alexandroupolis on the Aegean.
However, the international transport corridor, which harbors the potential to stimulate the development of much of Bulgaria's central regions, does not function at present because the Makaza Pass in the Rhodope Mountains on the Bulgarian-Greek border remains closed.
This is in spite of numerous promises in the past five years by senior Bulgarian and Greek politicians that a border crossing point there will be opened "next year."
The delay in the opening of the Makaza Pass, which is some 20 km north of Greece's Aegean coastline, has been attributed to the slow construction of the road on the Greek side of the border. If it becomes fully operational, the Ruse-Makaza Pass road will provide the shortest route from Romania's capital Bucharest (and much of Central and Eastern Europe, for that matter) to the Aegean / Mediterranean.
On Bulgaria's territory the Ruse-Makaza Pass road (section of Pan-European Transport Corridor No. 9) goes through Ruse, Byala, Veliko Tarnovo, Dryanovo, Gabrovo, the Shipka Pass (Balkan Mountain), Kazanlak, Stara Zagora, Dimitrovgrad, Haskovo, Kardzhali, and Momchilgrad to reach Makaza. It is dubbed Road I-5 (E-85) for Bulgarian government purposes.
The recent and long-anticipated decision of the Bulgarian government to make the Ruse-Makaza road a "priority project" is justified with the need to absorb EU funds under Operational Program "Transport", which would allow faster administrative procedures for investments, land expropriation, and construction. The Bulgarian government plans to turn the road in question into a "high-speed way" (with four lanes).
The actual realization on European Transport Corridor No. 9, however, also depends on the realization of one of the most-talked about infrastructure projects in Bulgaria in the past 20 years – the construction of a tunnel under the Shipka Pass in the Stara Planina Mountain (Balkan Mountain), which is supposed to improve greatly the transport links between Northern and Southern Bulgaria along the Ruse-Makaza route.
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