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2019-12-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russia to modernize Syria port, build railway across Syria and Iraq
[IsraelTimes] Russia is considering a slew of major commercial projects in Syria, a senior Russian official says.

Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov says after meeting with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
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in Damascus that Russia will spend $500 million to modernize Syria’s commercial port of Tartus.

Borisov says in remarks carried by Russian news agencies that the four-year modernization program envisages an overhaul of the old port in Tartus and the construction of a new one.

He adds that there is also a plan to build a railway across Syria and Iraq that will link Syria’s Mediterranean coast with the Persian Gulf.

Russia has a Soviet-era naval base in Tartus, the only such facility outside the former Soviet Union.

In 2017, Moscow struck a deal with Assad’s government to extend its lease on Tartus for 49 years. The agreement allows Russia to keep up to 11 warships there, including nuclear-powered ones.
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