The EU technical assistance project "Neighbourhood Road" will be implemented in the Vitebsk region

October 12, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. The EU technical assistance project "Neighboring Road" will be implemented in the Vitebsk region. Deputies of the Vitebsk Regional Council at an extraordinary session decided to co-finance the project, BELTA correspondent reports. As explained to the deputies by Konstantin Cherny, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Economy of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, the project provides for work to improve road infrastructure on the Belarusian-Latvian border section of the Kaplava-Plyusy highway. It is planned to widen the roadway and build so-called "pockets" - temporary parking spaces for vehicles. The length of the reconstructed section on the Belarusian side will be 1.5 km. In accordance with the terms of technical assistance, the Vitebsk region will bear 10% of the financial costs, and the European Union will pay the rest. The need to equip this section of the border road is due to the fact that, in connection with the entry into force of the agreement on a simplified procedure for mutual travel of residents of border areas of Belarus and Latvia, which provides for a simplified procedure for crossing the state border by residents of border areas, the flow of citizens traveling through simplified checkpoints has significantly increased. -0-