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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Wednesday 26 March 2014 25 Jumadal I 1435 - Volume 19 Number 5615 Price: QR2 Sheikh Khalid, West Indies UK Minister register easy hold talks win in Dhaka Business | 21 Sport | 31 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Unity need of the hour: Emir Brotherhood head, Arabs urged to find new models to overcome ‘dilemmas of development’ 682 others tried DOHA/KUWAIT: The Emir CAIRO: Egypt’s Muslim security forces stormed two H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Brotherhood leader went on Brotherhood sit-ins in Cairo, kill- Al Thani yesterday called on the trial yesterday along with hun- ing hundreds of people. Only 60 Arab countries to find new mod- dreds of other Islamists before of the 683 defendants were in the els to overcome the “dilemmas of the same judge who triggered a dock yesterday. The rest are being development” particularly pov- global outcry when he sentenced tried in absentia. erty, unemployment, illiteracy 529 convicted rioters to death. Meanwhile, the US escalated and public health issues. The trial of Mohamed Badie its criticism of Egypt over mass Addressing the opening session and around 700 supporters of trials targeting the Muslim of the Arab summit in Kuwait, deposed president Mohamed Brotherhood, and said it would be the Emir cautioned against stig- Mursi was adjourned after just “unconscionable” for Egypt’s gov- matising communities and politi- a few hours until April 28, when ernment to carry out the death cal rivals with terrorism saying judgement and sentencing is sentences given to 529 members it would further proliferate expected, a lawyer said. of the outlawed Islamist group. terrorism. Defence lawyers boycotted US State Department spokes- He also stressed the need to yesterday’s session of the trial woman Marie Harf said the way develop and upgrade the Gulf in the city of Minya, south of Egypt proceeds regarding the tri- Cooperation Council to live up to Cairo, branding it “farcical” after als and death sentences will have the aspirations of the peoples in Monday’s mass sentencing which consequences for future American the region. the UN denounced as a breach of aid. The death sentences handed “The crisis of development in all international human rights law. down on Monday by an Egyptian its dimensions has posed a threat Badie, who faces several other tri- court and the start of another to the national and regional secu- als that could also result in the death mass trial of the leader of the rity in our region and will lead in penalty, was not brought to court Muslim Brotherhood and 682 the event of its exacerbation to yesterday for security reasons. others “represent a flagrant dis- an unfavourable outcome,” said The charges stem from riot- regard for basic standards of jus- the Emir. ing last August, sparked when tice,” Harf said. AGENCIES “It contributes to the spread of The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Kuwaiti Emir H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah and the feelings of despair and radi- Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz at the Arab League Council meeting in Al Bayan Palace, Kuwait, yesterday. calism threatening political and social stability, and which entails Cooperation Council contribute supporting terrorism in his own reeling under as is the case with action to find new paradigms to to strengthening of the potentials country,” said the Emir. other brethren who introduced War edges closer to Obama proposes to overcome the dilemmas of devel- of the entire Arab nation, and to Referring to the Arab Spring dialogue among various social and opment in all its dimensions, first become a pillar of its renaissance,” revolutions, the Emir said, the political forces,” said the Emir. Assad’s home village end NSA collection and foremost the issues of pov- said the Emir. broad transformations experienced “We put emphasis on the fra- erty, unemployment, illiteracy, He condemned terrorism which by the region during the last three ternity bonds which link us to BEIRUT: Syria’s civil war edged WASHINGTON: US President and public health, by creating an targets civilians by killing, intimi- years “ have revived Arab peoples’ the bigger sister, Egypt, which we closer to the home village of Barack Obama is proposing integrated regional Arab order, dation and attacking civilian facil- hopes for a better future they wish it security and political sta- President Bashar Al Assad yes- to end the National Security which combines the interests ities for political purposes. deserve and also have renewed bility and all the good for the path terday, with opposition groups Agency’s controversial bulk tel- of all our countries in order to “Brothers we should neither confidence in itself and its youth.” to be chosen by its people who set mounting their second sustained ephone data collection, exposed achieve progress and prosperity stigmatise full communities with The Emir hoped that Egypt memorable examples in express- attack on the area in the conflict. by fugitive intelligence contrac- for the Arab peoples,” he added. terrorism, nor attach it to those would be able to achieve stability ing their ambitions, and we hope The push has seen government tor Edward Snowden. “I would like also to mention who differ politically with us, through a national dialogue. “If this would be realised through a troops rush to reinforce a coastal The plan would store the data in this context, our experience in because that would proliferate ter- some parties failed to achieve sta- comprehensive political societal enclave near the president’s ances- outside of government while the Gulf Cooperation Council, and rorism rather than isolating it. It bility because the political horizon dialogue,” he added. tral home, Qardaha, and the port allowing access for national secu- the need to develop and upgrade is also unbecoming of anyone who is blocked, yet we are confident THE PENINSULA city of Latakia in the north-west. rity reasons, a senior administra- it to live up to the aspirations of fails to maintain national unity that they would surmount the Continued on page 4 THE GUARDIAN tion official said. AFP our peoples, and to enable the to accuse other Arab countries of difficult circumstances they are See also page 8 See also page 8 See also page 14 WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Israeli ‘pullout key to comprehensive peace’ Emir urges Palestinian leaders to end division and form an interim national coalition government The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with other leaders of Arab League member states at the 25th Arab Summit in Kuwait City yesterday. Continued from page 1 He said the stifling siege In this context it is incumbent Al Quds,” said the Emir. solution are nothing but an overt for compromises and renunciation On the Palestinian issue, the clamped on Gaza Strip and the on us, we all the Arabs, to act to He called on all the Palestinian deception, which only those who of division. Emir said, “Israel has to know ensuing suffering it created were end this unjust, unjustified and leaders to put an end to Palestinian ostensibly don’t want to do any- He lauded the brothers in that the only viable solution to neither acceptable, nor politically incomprehensible blockade imme- division and give priority to the thing regarding the gravity of the Yemen for their wisdom in choos- end the Arab–Israeli conflict and and morally justified at any day. diately ,and to open border cross- supreme national interests by crime, take for granted. ing dialogue for building a modern to achieve a comprehensive and “In Qatar we have exerted per- ing points for the inhabitants of forming an interim national coa- “The chemical weapons and gun State and the remarkable progress just peace is based on the com- sistent efforts to alleviate the suf- Gaza to enable them practice their lition government. barrels could never terminate the achieved by Sudan in establishing plete withdrawal of Israel from all fering of our Palestinian brothers daily life on an equal footing with “We also reiterate our call for peoples’ aspirations for freedom. peace and security in Darfur. occupied Arab and Palestinian ter- in Gaza, and made diligent efforts other peoples,” said the Emir. implementing the resolution of They may prolong suffering and He said It is high time for Iraq ritories, and establishing the inde- to reconstruct the Strip and supply “I refer in this respect to the res- Doha Summit to convene a lesser increase the price to be incurred to get out of the vortex of violence pendent Palestinian State with the fuel to facilitate day-to-day living olution of Doha Summit according Pan-Arab Summit in which the by Syria as a whole. and divisions, and this would not be holy Al Quds as its capital.” conditions there. to a proposal by the State of Qatar Arab countries willing to contribute “The Syrian children’s sufferings achieved by the exclusion of entire to set up a fund for aiding Al to the Palestinian national recon- became a stigma for the interna- authentic societal segments or Quds with a billion-dollar ciliation could participate, and we tional community and we have to accusing them of terror when they fund. His Highness the are ready to host this summit,” said take action pursuant to the Arab demand equality and participation. Father Emir declared then the Emir. On the crisis in Syria, League resolutions and interna- The Emir concluded by invit- a quarter of billion dollars the Emir said, the Syrian regime tional legality to put an end to this ing the Kuwaiti Emir H H Sheikh contribution to the fund , reluctantly came to the Geneva 2 crisis and realize the aspirations of Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah but the resolution was not Conference “just to buy time”.

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