Tunisia, Libya agree to build railway track

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Tunisia, Libya agree to build railway track

DJERBA, Tunisia, June 22 (KUNA) -- Tunisian and Libyan ministers of transportation agreed on Friday to jointly set up a company that would embark on building a railway track for Libya.

The two ministers, Abdulrahim al-Zawrawi of Tunisia and Muhammad al-Mabrouk of Libya signed the agreement at the island of Djerba, close to both the Tunisian and Libyan borders.

The new railway system will meet the land transportation needs of Libya and Tunisia's need to take part in building and maintaining the proposed railway track, the two ministers said at the signing ceremony.

The joint company that will build the railway will be in a position after this initial experience to take on similar land transportation projects in the African continent and to go head-on with competing international companies, said the two ministers.

This project, the ministers maintained, would be a far-sighted step toward integrating the economies of North African Arab countries through an efficient railway system.

Libya had earlier expressed its desire to have a new railway track built across its vast territories by enlisting the expertise of Tunisia in this field. (end) nm.

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