Saudi Arabia and Qatar have agreed to construct a high-speed railway line linking Riyadh and Doha in two hours.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim, witnessed an settlement being signed at a gathering in Riyadh on Monday. Trains on the 785km line will cease at Hofuf and Dammam in Saudi Arabia. The railway may even join Riyadh’s King Salman Worldwide Airport and Doha’s Hamad Worldwide Airport.
The purpose is a two-hour journey time, with quick trains “considerably enhancing mobility, boosting commerce and tourism, and enhancing high quality of life”, the Saudi Press Company mentioned.
It known as the settlement “a step reflecting the deep-rooted fraternal and historic relations between the 2 nations”. It’s hoped the railway will serve greater than 10 million passengers per yr, create about 30,000 jobs and assist decrease carbon emissions.
The mission is because of be accomplished in six years. The settlement was signed by Saudi Minister of Transport and Logistic Companies Saleh Al Jasser and the Minister of Transport of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulla bin Mohammed Al Thani.
The signing came about on the sidelines of the eighth assembly of the Qatari-Saudi Co-ordination Council in Riyadh, which was co-chaired by the Crown Prince and the Emir.
In a joint assertion following the council’s assembly, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have pledged to strengthen defence ties and co-ordinate positions on points affecting the Center East.
The 2 nations “affirmed their dedication to strengthening and creating the defence partnership between their nations,” a joint assertion mentioned after the assembly. In addition they vowed to “co-ordinate their positions in addressing regional challenges in a means that contributes to defending the area’s safety and enhancing its preparedness”.
Current ties within the discipline embrace sharing data on passenger safety, combating drug trafficking and countering terrorist financing, the assertion mentioned. It expressed their need to additional improve this co-operation to attain safety and stability in each nations.
The 2 sides additionally “reaffirmed their dedication to continued co-ordination and intensified efforts to keep up worldwide peace and safety”.
The 2 nations described it as vital to “improve the reliability and stability of worldwide power markets” and guarantee safe provides. They expressed a need fur additional co-operation in electrical energy, renewable power and power effectivity.
Sheikh Tamim, who arrived in Riyadh on Monday, was accompanied by Qatar’s Prime Minister and Overseas Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman, who visited Riyadh on Thursday and held talks with the Saudi Overseas Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan.
Through the Thursday assembly, Prince Faisal and Sheikh Mohammed mentioned bilateral relations earlier than chairing a gathering of the chief committee of Co-ordination Council, the Saudi Overseas Ministry mentioned. It mentioned their assembly addressed “initiatives that might elevate relations to broader horizons”.
Each nations counseled the work of committees and dealing teams of the Co-ordination Council. The council goals to develop relations between Saudi Arabia and Qatar in fields reminiscent of safety, enterprise, tradition and media.
It is usually answerable for forging the final coverage of co-operation and co-ordination between the 2 nations on political problems with frequent curiosity, and for strengthening the alternate of knowledge to boost the safety of each nations.
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The Sackler household is a transatlantic dynasty that owns Purdue Pharma, which manufactures and markets OxyContin, one of many medicine on the centre of America’s opioids disaster. The household is well-known for his or her beneficiant philanthropy in the direction of the world’s prime cultural establishments, together with Guggenheim Museum, the Nationwide Portrait Gallery, Tate in Britain, Yale College and the Serpentine Gallery, to call a couple of. Two branches of the household management Purdue Pharma.
Isaac Sackler and Sophie Greenberg have been Jewish immigrants who arrived in New York earlier than the First World Conflict. That they had three sons. The primary, Arthur, died earlier than OxyContin was invented. The second, Mortimer, who died aged 93 in 2010, was a former chief government of Purdue Pharma. The third, Raymond, died aged 97 in 2017 and was additionally a former chief government of Purdue Pharma.
It was Arthur, a psychiatrist and pharmaceutical marketeer, who began the household enterprise dynasty. He and his brothers purchased a small firm known as Purdue Frederick; amongst their first merchandise have been laxatives and prescription earwax remover.
Arthur’s department of the household has not been concerned in Purdue for a few years and his daughter, Elizabeth, has spoken out towards it, saying the corporate’s position in America’s medicine disaster is “morally abhorrent”.
The lawsuits that have been introduced by the attorneys normal of New York and Massachussetts named eight Sacklers. This contains Kathe, Mortimer, Richard, Jonathan and Ilene Sackler Lefcourt, who’re all the kids of both Mortimer or Raymond. Then there’s Theresa Sackler, who’s Mortimer senior’s widow; Beverly, Raymond’s widow; and David Sackler, Raymond’s grandson.
Members of the Sackler household are not often seen in public.
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