Qatar Airways announced on Wednesday that it was planning to buy 160 Boeing Jets, signed the last deal during President Trump’s four -day visit to the Arabian Peninsula.
“It is the greatest order of Jets in the history of Boeing,” said Mr. Trump.
Boeing Wide-Body Jets usually sell for between $ 300 million and $ 440 million.
The United States and Qatar also signed a declaration of defense cooperation. No additional details, such as the text of the documents, were immediately released.
Mr. Trump and Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Hhani, the Emir of Qatar, watched how their ministers of the defense and the leaders of Boeing and Qatar Airways signed the similarities.
“After signing these documents, we go to a different level of relationship,” said the Qatari leader.
Mr. Trump received the welcome from a hero in Doha, the capital of Qatar. The Qataris rolled out a literal red carpet for the president, who pumped his fist before he ended the stairs of Air Force One, where Sheikh Al-Thhani greeted him.
During a hospitable ceremony, men dressed in traditional white robes accompanied the President’s motorcade on Arab horses and camels.
“We have the best equipment all over the world,” said Mr. Trump. “You actually buy a lot of that equipment.”
The Wednesday signed deals did not include a controversial plan for the Qataris to donate a luxury Jet of $ 400 million for Mr. Trump to use as a new Air Force One. Mr. Trump has claimed that Air Force One is too old and that it is unfavorable while it is next to the jets of Arab countries at international airports. But the Gift has expressed ethical worriesAnd Qatar has said it is still being assessed.
The purchase of the Boeing aircraft announced in Doha followed a similar announcement of deals while Mr. Trump was in Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
The White House said on Tuesday that the president had conquered $ 600 billion from deals with the Saudi government and companies. But the details provided were vague and some of the announced deals that had already been in the making as new.
Organizers of the US Saudi Investment Forum, where the deals were announced, said that 145 deals were signed, in total more than $ 300 billion, only half of the total promoted by the White House on Tuesday.
A press release from Trump administration that described around $ 283 billion in deals, said that “this was” just a few of the many transforming deals that were confirmed in Saudi Arabia. ” Civil servants of the White House said there would be more deals.
The largest deal announced in Saudi Arabia was an agreement of almost $ 142 billion for more than a dozen American defense industry to offer the Kingdom of State-of-the-Art war equipment and service.
The White House also brought an obligation from the Saudi company DataVolt to continue with plans to invest $ 20 billion in artificial intelligence data centers and energy infrastructure in the United States.
It also promoted more than $ 2 billion at work that American companies carried out on Saudi infrastructure projects, including King Salman International Airport, King Salman Park and Qiddiya City, a huge entertainment complex. Several of those projects were already underway.
The Bouwbedrijf Jacobs announced his involvement in the new Saudi Airport Project last August. Aecom, another construction and infrastructure company, had also won a contract to offer design and project management services for the Qiddiya City Project.
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