ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Thursday 10 April 2014 10 Jumadal II 1435 - Volume 19 Number 6031 Price: QR2 Toyota to recall Simpson gets 6.39 million 18-month vehicles doping ban Business | 17 Sport | 27 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir meets British minister Kuwait hopes Supply snags for remedy to Gulf row cause Shafaf KUWAIT: Kuwait expects to see “positive steps” taken in a dispute between Qatar and three other Gulf Arab states as soon as this week that may include a decision to send those shortage countries’ ambassadors back to Doha, a Kuwaiti official said yesterday. Woqod seeking solutions: Official Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain last month BY FAZEENA SALEEM cylinders. We have enough stocks took the unprecedented step of and they are delivered to super- recalling their ambassadors from DOHA: Amid complaints about markets as before. There are Qatar in protest at what they a shortage of the lightweight more than 200 supermarkets see as Doha’s giving support to Shafaf LPG cylinders in the mar- selling Shafaf cylinders,” he said. Islamist groups. ket, Woqod sources say that the Enquiries with several super- “There will be very positive company has been facing a distri- markets yesterday revealed steps in the future regarding bution problem after sale of the that demand for the cylinders this ... I hope this week,” Kuwait’s cylinders was banned in fuel sta- have gone up over the past few undersecretary for foreign affairs tions and is looking for solutions. weeks. Some say that they don’t The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met Philip Hammond, the British Secretary of State for Defence Khaled Al Jarallah told reporters. More than three weeks ago, have enough space to store the yesterday. They reviewed bilateral relations in the military field and developments in the Middle East. “Part of this will be the ambas- Woqod stopped sale of the Shafaf cylinders and the stock finishes sadors going back,” he said, adding cylinders at its fuel stations, fol- quicker than before. that all the Gulf states wanted to lowing instructions from the Civil “We don’t have stocks at present. repair their “brotherly” ties. Defence Directorate in the wake The cylinders may be available by Kuwait is planning to present of an explosion at a restaurant in tomorrow but we are not sure,” Cabinet nod for urban master plan a solution to the two sides soon, a petrol station near Landmark said a shopkeeper in Aziziya area. a Gulf Arab diplomat said yester- mall in February. Asked if the cylinders were sup- day, asking not to be named. A senior Waqod official told plied by Woqod on a regular basis, DOHA: The State Cabinet yes- management of the centre and its demand reduction (preventive At an annual Arab summit last this daily yesterday that the he said often there is a delay. terday approved its draft deci- functions and financial resources. education) and treating and reha- month, Kuwait’s Emir H H Sheikh company is looking for alterna- Another shop keeper at New sion on the urban master plan The Supreme Council of Health bilitating the addicts. Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah urged tive places to sell Shafaf cylin- Salata said the shop didn’t have for Qatar. The decision included (SCH) will be responsible for The committee recommended Arab states to overcome rifts in ders. “High number of Shafaf cylinders for more than three days, a plan for sustainable growth laying down the organisational to work out a future strategy order to tackle the “enormous” cylinders was being sold at our and he was not sure when they and a national framework for structure of the centre and deter- for the fourth phase and con- regional dangers. fuel stations. The decision to stop would be available. “We normally development (vision, goals, and mining its tasks. tinue updating and developing REUTERS the sales came suddenly. Now we have a small stock of like 25 cylin- spatial distribution strategy). The centre will work out defi- the modus operandi of the anti- are looking for alternative places,” ders. They finish soon and we don’t The data mentioned in the plan nite systems for maintaining the narcotics organs and raising the Qatar Media Corp said the official. get new stocks quickly,” he said. contains the structure outlines of confidentiality of patients’ infor- level of efficiency of the staff as “Because we stopped selling at Many customers continue to the city of Doha, the capital and mation and it will not be allowed well as the role of the educational CEO appointed fuel stations, there is a gap in dis- complain that they face diffi- other municipalities. to disclose any information about institutions and the importance of tribution. There is a challenge in culties in getting the cylinders The Cabinet meeting chaired by these patients except upon a war- effective partnership between the DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh reaching to customers,” he added. at supermarkets. “I went to at the Prime Minister and Interior rant issued by the competent families, the school, the mosque Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yes- Currently Shafaf cylinders least to four shops and found a Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah authority and to be addressed to and the media to ensure a safe terday issued Emiri Decision No. are sold only at supermarkets cylinder at the fifth shop. This is bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani the Director General. society free of narcotics. 51 of 2014 appointing H E Sheikh and several customers have been very unusual. Woqod should find also approved a draft decision on The Cabinet took note of an The Cabinet also approved a Abdurrahman bin Hamad bin complaining about a shortage or a solution to this problem,” said establishing Nuwafir (To Save), a annual report of the Permanent draft decision amending some Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani, delays in supply. an expatriate. new centre to provide treatment, Committee for Drugs and Alcohol provisions of resolution No. (32) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The official, however, claimed “We can’t go hunting for a gas rehabilitation and integrated Affairs (PCDAA), on the third of 2012 to establish a committee Qatar Media Corporation. that the cylinders are being sold cylinder every time. They should community welfare to addiction phase plan to implement the monitoring the inventory and The decision is operative as of at supermarkets as earlier with- open exclusive shops to sell the patients. national strategy on combating prices of raw materials. the date of issue and is to be pub- out any problem. cylinders,” said another. The draft decision includes narcotics. The report contains THE PENINSULA lished in the Official Gazette. “There is no shortage of THE PENINSULA provisions relating to the a strategy on supply reduction, Continued on page 7 QNA Three youth get one-year jail Arab League urges US to keep up Mideast peace push CAIRO: The Arab League responsible for the dangerous plunged into crisis last week after endorse before formal establish- case there are no (regular) meet- for car racing called on the United States stalemate” in the US-brokered Israel, demanding a Palestinian com- ment of a state. “In response to ings organised between Palestinian yesterday to keep up efforts to talks which are scheduled to wrap mitment to continue talking after the Palestinian violation of their and Israeli ministers, apart from DOHA: A criminal court has salvage Middle East peace talks up on April 29. the end of the month, failed to carry commitments under peace talks... the finance ministers,” he said. sentenced three youth to one that are on the brink of collapse, “(The ministers) called on out the promised release of about Israel government ministers have Underscoring the Palestinians’ year in jail and ordered to can- blaming Israel for a crisis that America to continue its efforts two dozen Palestinian prisoners. been told to refrain from meeting main concern — economic meas- cel their driver’s licence for six has led Washington to evaluate for the resumption of the nego- Israel announced yesterday their Palestinian counterparts,” ures imposed by Israel — the Arab months for racing on a highway its role in the negotiations. tiation track that obliges Israel a partial freeze in high-level an Israeli government official said, League said Arab states must meet causing the death of a person Arab foreign ministers gath- to implement its commitments contacts with the Palestinians requesting anonymity. their financial commitments to the and serious injuries to another. ered in Cairo yesterday with ... according to the agreed time in retaliation for their signing Palestinian Labour Minister Palestinian Authority “to provide The court also ordered the Palestinian leader Mahmoud frame,” a League statement said. international conventions it con- Ahmad Majdalani played down the an Arab financial safety net”. youths to pay blood money worth Abbas said Israel was “wholly The US-brokered negotiations tends they are not entitled to significance of the move. “In any AGENCIES QR200,000 to the family of the victim, in conjunction with the insurance companies, Al Sharq Atletico Madrid beat Barcelona reported. They were charged with mur- der by mistake, engaging in car 11 cases of Mers virus race in the street without tak- ing permission from the authori- ties concerned and rash driving endangering lives of people and reported in Jeddah properties, The road accident report ABU DHABI: Saudi Arabia Some patients were transferred stated that the youths had said yesterday it had recorded to other hospitals while the disin- engaged in a car race on 11 cases infected with the fection was carried out, the health Semaisma road near Al Khor.