Jordan Scraps Plan for New Aqaba Radar
From Reuters
AMMAN, Jordan —
Debt-ridden Jordan has scrapped a plan to spend $10.5 million of foreign aid on a new radar system for Aqaba airport, officials said Sunday.
They said the Council of Ministers decided to use the U.S. Agency for International Development grant for other programs. The American firm Westinghouse would have installed the system at the Red Sea port.
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