Qatar, France Sign Plane, Transport Deals Worth $14 Billion
- Airbus, Dassault all come back from Macron trip with sales
- Macron visited isolated Gulf state to shore up close ties
Macron and Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in Doha on Dec. 7.
Photographer: Karim Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images
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France and Qatar signed a slew of contracts as President Emmanuel Macron visits the isolated Gulf country to solidify French business interests and Qatar continues to firm up its ties with the West.
Among the deals: France’s Dassault Aviation sold a further 12 Rafale fighter jets; the French national railway company SNCF along with Paris metro company RATP won a contract to run the Doha metro; French state-owned armaments company Nexter sold 490 armored vehicles; and Airbus sold 50 narrow body jets.