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| The Minister of Infrastructure Development regrets that "the last meetings of the organs of the Cartagena High Speed ??Company have not served to clarify how and when the AVE arrives in the city "| Requests that the Board of Directors meet urgently in the city to explain the definitive solution for the AVE The regional government has demanded that the central government clarify the situation of the project for the arrival of the High Speed ??in Cartagena and "know how, when and the investments planned by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda", reported the Minister of Development and Infrastructure, José Ramón Díez de Revenga, who denounced that "there is no news of the progress of this infrastructure since February 2019 despite repeated requests to the Railway Infrastructure Administrator (ADIF)". The director regretted that today the meeting of the Board of Shareholders of the Cartagena High Speed ??Company is being held again online, "when we have repeatedly requested the need for the Board of Directors to meet in the same city of Cartagena, with so that all pending issues are cleared with all the administrations involved.

" He criticized that in the last meetings of the bodies of the aforementioned Society, "the doubts raised by the information published by the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (Airef) that suggested that the State rethink the investments and pending projects to be executed on the railroad of High Speed ??(AVE) ". "For the regional Executive, the arrival of the AVE to Cartagena is essential and unavoidable because it is a strategic infrastructure," said the counselor and indicated that "we cannot allow the arrival of the Alta to be questioned and postponed.

Speed".

Therefore, he requested that the Board of Directors meet urgently in the city to explain the definitive solution proposed by the Ministry for the integration of the AVE. Díez de Revenga highlighted that Cartagena is the "tourist capital of the Murcia Region and has greater potential for generating socioeconomic benefits and territorial cohesion than most of the 30 cities that already have AVE".

Source: CARM