Tass, the official Soviet news agency, announced yesterday that the Soviet Union will help the United Arab Republic build a shipyard in Alexandria. The announcement said a contract was signed by a visiting UAR economic delegation in Moscow with a Soviet concern, based on a Soviet-UAR economic and technical aid agreement signed in 1958.
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