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World Bank offers €16.9m for Georgia’s East-West Highway

Georgia’s Finance Minister and the World Bank Regional Director for the South Caucasus signed the agreement today. Photo by Georgia's Ministry of Finance.

Agenda.ge, 04 Dec 2017 - 14:29, Tbilisi,Georgia

The World Bank is continuing to help Georgia improve its main transport artery, the East-West Highway, by offering €16.9 million.

Georgia’s Finance Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze and the World Bank Regional Director for the South Caucasus Mercy Tembon signed the corresponding agreement today in Tbilisi.

The financial assistance worth €16.9 allocated by the World Bank will be spent on improving an 11km section of the East-West Highway that stretches from Chumateleti to Khevi.

The existing two-lane road will be transformed into a four-lane highway.

The works will be concluded by 2020, announced Georgia’s Ministry of Finance.

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