Dalje: Bosnian Federation building gas pipeline to Croatia

The government of Bosnia's Federation entity on Monday launched a procedure to adopt a final solution for connecting a gas pipeline passing through Bosnia and Herzegovina with the one in Croatia near Slavonski Brod.

The decision was forwarded to the Council of Ministers, the state-level government.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has expressed willingness to financially support the project which the government in the Croat-Muslim entity considers of strategic importance for both Bosnian entities.

Connecting the Sarajevo-Zenica-Slavonski Brod gas pipeline would ensure the diversification of natural gas supply in Bosnia, which now gets this fuel only from Russia.

The project would additionally integrate the regional market in compliance with an agreement on the establishment of a Southeast European energy community and the European Union gas directive, the Federation government said.  MORE