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| Bahrain, Qatar agree to begin work on bridge |
| 2006-06-12 |
| MANAMA - Former enemies Bahrain and Qatar took another step on Sunday to put the past behind them by signing an agreement to begin the construction of a bridge linking the two Gulf Arab states. QatarÂ’s crown prince Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and his Bahraini counterpart Sheikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa signed an agreement to create a special purpose company that would undertake the project of building a bridge linking the archipelago of Bahrain to the Qatari peninsula to the east, said the official Bahraini news agency BNA. The price of the project was not disclosed but a cost of about two billion dollars was given when the bridge project was first announced in 2000 as the two countries were resolving a territorial dispute. The signing came after a meeting by the joint commission formed by the two countries after a decades-old territorial dispute between Bahrain and Qatar over Hawar island that led to a war in 1986 and was resolved by the International Court of Justice in March 2001. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 Put a drawbridge section in the middle, just in case relations get kinda chilly. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-06-12 22:25 |