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The Slovak government is making a great effort within the Danube Commission to solve immediately the issue of making the Danube again navigable through Yugoslavia, Slovak Foreign Minister Edward Kukan has said.
Kukan said that his country had suffered and was still suffering a great loss from the fact that the Danube is closed to traffic in Yugoslavia.
He said that the shipyard in Komarno, the biggest of the kind in central Europe, had completed the construction of several vessels that it must deliver to foreign partners, saying that the shipyard would have to pay penalties if it failed to do so by the set deadline.
He also said that Slovak officials had made it clear at international conferences dealing with the issue that it must be solved immediately.
Asked to comment on who should finance the reconstruction of bridges across the Danube in Yugoslavia and clear the river's bed, Kukan said that the international community should reach a sensible agreement on the matter.
Slovak papers have also reported that the shipyard's work has been affected by NATO's bombing of the Danube bridges in Novi Sad, chief city of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's northern province of Vojvodina.