MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russia's state-owned company Russian Railways has been in talks on its possible participation in construction of a 106-mile railway in Kuwait, a protocol of Friday’s fifth Russian-Kuwait intergovernmental commission stated.
"The Joint Stock Company Russian Railways is in talks to participate in the construction of a 170-kilometer [106-mile] railway running from the border with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the south of Kuwait," the document read.
The railway will be part of the railway network of the Cooperation Council of Arab States of the Gulf (GCC), which comprises Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman, according to the document.
