concession

The Kremlin would also get the inside track on lucrative mining concessions in Sudan, the third-largest gold producer in Africa.

"I think the best way to make those concessions is voluntarily rather than under duress. It's a better look certainly," says Rory Sutherland.

The Chinese firms will recover their investment through toll fees under a 30-year concession.

The agents conversely granted Mr. Lowell had made “good faith legal arguments”—a token concession.

“There can be no question of any concessions, or any surrender of our approaches to those key points,” Ryabkov told reporters in Moscow on Wednesday.