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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER QSL: Umm Salal stun Al Arabi Sport | 24 Wednesday 22 October 2014 • 28 Dhu’l-Hijja 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6226 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir meets Turkish Interior Minister Qatar wins UN Barwa to build Human Rights Council Motor City for membership NEW YORK: Qatar yester- day won the membership of the Human Rights Council for a used vehicles three-year period from 2015-2017. Qatar won the vote in the UN General Assembly in New York Scores of services under one roof backed by 142 countries as part of the Group of Asian states. DOHA: All activities related Services such as offices for India, Indonesia and Bangladesh to used cars, including their Traffic Department, Technical also won the membership of the sale, auction, registration with Testing, offices for Ministry of Human Rights Council. the traffic department and Interior, Civil Defence, Ministry This is the third time that insurance will be shifted to a of Municipality, banks and car Qatar has been elected for mem- mini-city being developed near insurance office will also be avail- bership of the Council which is Rawdat Rashid off Salwa Road. able at the location. Moreover, the the highest organ of the UN on To be known as ‘Motor City’, project will contain commercial human rights worldwide. the project will cover a massive units, a hotel, staff accommodation Qatar won the membership 1.15 million square meters of space, for families, workers accommoda- with the support of such a large Barwa Real Estate group, the tion, a driving school, in addition to number of member-states of the developers, announced yesterday. other necessary facilities. UN to reflect the international The proposed city will house “The project, which will be called The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met at the Emiri Diwan with Turkish Interior Minister Avkan status it enjoys and the role it used car showrooms, garages, an Motor City, comes under Barwa Alaa and his accompanying delegation on the occasion of their visit to the country to participate in the tenth plays in the defence of human auction area for sale of used cars, Real Estate’s social and economic session of the International Exhibition for Internal Security Systems (Milipol Qatar 2014 ). The Prime Minister rights in all regions of the world. labor camps for workers of these contributions to the Qatari soci- QNA and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani also attended the meeting. facilities, entertainment facilities ety as it will enable traders to start as also a racing track, Barwa offi- their businesses using commercial cials announced yesterday. units with encouraging prices,” said More than third of the total area Ahmad Abdulla. of the Motor City will be reserved “Barwa Real Estate will develop for used car showrooms, while the project over four years divided another 29 percent will be dedi- into three phases, the details and Crackdown on villa partitioning slows down cated to entertainment facilities. budget of which will be revealed And the remaining will house out- later after signing the consul- DOHA: The ongoing campaign identifying partitioned villas. environment and the health affordable, multi-storey buildings lets selling car spare parts, servic- tancy agreement for the project of the Ministry of Municipality We depend on two things. First, and safety of the people,” said to address the severe shortage of ing facilities and insurance, etc. and after approving the final pro- and Urban Planning against complaints from people. Even Al Shafi. residential space in the country. The project entails investment posal of the project by all relevant partitioned villas has been after receiving a complaint, we He said the violators can seek They pointed out that the greedy of around QR1.5bn, and will house bodies,” he said. slowed down by difficulties in cannot enter the house without a licence to legalise the parti- and unscrupulous middlemen are various services for used vehicles The group will benefit from the identifying such villas, a munic- a permission from the owner or tioning, if it is required, after cashing on this shortage through such as used-cars services, car project through the BOT system ipal official has disclosed. the Public Prosecution,” Al Watan paying the fine and rectifying partitioning of villas. workshops, maintenance centres, (build-operate-transfer) for 30 Salim Hammoud Al Shafi, daily quoted Al Shafi as saying. the violation. CMC member Mahmoud Al and warehouses for used cars as years. An advanced electronic sys- director of the monitoring The other way to identify a par- Applications for a licence for Shafi said: “This phenomenon well as rent-a-car services. tem will be used to connect cars department at Doha Municipality titioned villa is through outside partitioning or maintenance is continues in many residential Speaking to mediapersons at a data to Hukoomi website and con- told an Arabic daily that in many observation, he said. Officials had handled by the technical affairs areas, despite the measures taken press conference held yesterday, sequently connect this data to the cases, the municipal inspectors earlier disclosed the factors they department of the municipality. by the municipalities. I myself had the company said it has already Ministry of Interior. This system have been forced to rely on out- consider during this observation He said since the ministry complained against this to the signed agreement with Ministry will be available for download on side observation to identify par- such as the number of cars parked launched the current campaign, authorities but they only impose of Municipality and Urban different mediums, websites and titioned villas since they are not in front of a villa, electricity and a number of cases have been a fine and ask (the violator) to Planning. “Under this agreement smart phones. authorised to enter the houses, water connection, and number of referred for detailed investigation. correct the modification.” Barwa will rent land extending The stone laying ceremony without a prior approval. air-conditioners. They would then be transferred He said the solution is to open over 1,150,000 square meters to of the project will be held in Even after identifying a villa, “The law (banning illegal to the Public Prosecution and to new residential facilities outside develop and run this distinctive December this year while other confirming a violation and tak- partitioning of villas and other the judiciary. the city and take strict measures project,” said Ahmad Abdulla details will be released early ing corrective action could involve buildings) has been implemented Meanwhile, several member of against the middlemen. Al Abdulla, Acting Group CEO, next year. THE PENINSULA lengthy procedures. taking into account the impact of the Central Municipal Council THE PENINSULA Barwa Real Estate. Picture on page 2 “We are facing problems in this practice on infrastructure, (CMC) have called for more Continued on page 2 Ebola body temperature check Stop unilateral Marmara Restaurant closed actions, Ban for 60 days over tainted food DOHA: The Marmara Istanbul Restaurant in Frij Klaib has been tells Israel and closed for 60 days for “preparing food in unhealthy conditions”, the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning said yesterday. More Palestinians than 20 people were hospitalised since Friday, after taking food from the restaurant. UNITED NATIONS: UN The Ministry, as part of its recent decision to “name and shame” chief Ban Ki-moon urged Israel the erring outlets yesterday posted a picture of the restaurant on its and the Palestinians yesterday website, along with the closure notice issued on Sunday. Some pictures to move away from unilateral showing the interior of the restaurant have also been on display. actions stoking tensions and The Ministry, however, has not disclosed the source of food poison- make the “tough compromises” ing, which some victims had attributed to barbeque served by the needed to end their decades-old restaurant on Friday. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Municipality and conflict. Urban Planning, the Supreme Council of Health and other depart- Ban spoke to the UN Security ments concerned have agreed to launch joint inspection campaigns Council after returning from a visit on food outlets, beauty salons and other facilities. This was decided to the Middle East where he saw in a joint meeting on Monday. THE PENINSULA first-hand the destruction in Gaza wrought by the 50-day war between Airport doctors demonstrate how medical staff will check the body temperature of a passenger arriving from Jazeera to observe 300 Israel and Hamas militants. Ebola-infected zones at Vaclav Havel Airport in Prague yesterday. “Leaders on both sides must overcome their differences and seconds of silence on air dispense with the unilateral ini- tiatives that serve only to fuel DOHA: Al Jazeera will mark 300 days since the arrest of its mistrust and polarization,” the journalists this Friday with 300 seconds of silence on air, accom- secretary general said. Total CEO killed in jet crash Pistorius begins jail term panied by images of the detainees and the campaign to release The appeal came after MOSCOW/PARIS: Christophe de Margerie, the PRETORIA: Star athlete Oscar Pistorius is spend- them. Baher Mohammed, Mohammed Fahmy and Peter Greste Palestinian youths attacked an charismatic and outspoken chief executive of the ing his first night in jail yesterday as he starts serving were sentenced to between seven and ten years in June, after apartment building taken over by French oil company Total, was killed when his pri- a five-year sentence behind the towering walls of a being arrested in December last year.

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