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Kerry Says Settlements Put Mideast Peace at Risk BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 1 Ivanchuk, Muzychuk crowned INDEX World Rapid DOW JONES QE NYMEX QATAR 4-10, 24 COMMENT 22, 23 Qatar Airways fl ying REGION 10 BUSINESS 1–7, 11-12 high with best ever champions 19,833.68 10,336.05 53.91 ARAB WORLD 11 CLASSIFIED 8-10 -111.36 +31.28 +0.01 INTERNATIONAL 12–21 SPORTS 1 – 8 operating profi t -0.56% +0.30% +0.02% Latest Figures published in QATAR since 1978 THURSDAY Vol. XXXVII No. 10317 December 29, 2016 Rabia I 30, 1438 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Kerry says In brief settlements QATAR | Transparency New system for sick leave soon A new system for issuing sick leave put Mideast will be introduced next year, an off icial source was quoted by local Arabic daily Arrayah. The source told the daily that the new system will include modifications to the current system to guarantee more peace at risk transparency and accuracy. Besides, there are a number of suggestions and recommendations under study Reuters Israel and the Palestinians or salvage the for possible implementation in the Washington Obama administration’s record of failed new system. The source pointed Middle East peace eff orts. out that the new system will be in In a statement, Netanyahu said co-operation between the Ministry S Secretary of State John Kerry Kerry’s speech “was skewed against of Public Health and the Ministry warned yesterday that Israel’s Israel.” The Israeli leader said Kerry of Administrative Development, Ubuilding of settlements was en- “obsessively dealt with settlements” Labour and Social Aff airs for more dangering Middle East peace, express- and barely touched on “the root of the control on the issue. There will be ing unusually frank frustration with confl ict - Palestinian opposition to a specified places for approved sick the long-time American ally. Jewish state in any boundaries”. leave certificates, and the maximum Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin The Israelis are looking past Obama number to be granted at one time. Netanyahu shot back at Kerry and ac- and expect they will receive more fa- US Secretary of State John Kerry lays out his vision for peace between Israel and the Palestinians yesterday in the Dean Acheson More details on the system will be cused him of showing bias against the vourable treatment from Trump, who Auditorium at the Department of State in Washington, DC. US Secretary of State John Kerry insisted yesterday that Israel and a announced soon, the daily added. Jewish state. takes offi ce on Jan 20. future Palestine should live as two states based on the territory they held before the 1967 Six Day War. In a 70-minute speech just weeks The Republican used his Twit- ARAB WORLD | Confl ict before the Obama administration ter account yesterday to denounce hands over to President-elect Donald the Obama administration, including Talks on Syria truce, Trump, Kerry said Israel “will never its UN vote and the nuclear accord it but ‘still obstacles’ have true peace” with the Arab world reached with Iran last year. Turkey and Russia are discussing if it does not reach an accord based on “We cannot continue to let Israel a possible nationwide ceasefire in Israelis and Palestinians living in their be treated with such total disdain and Syria, but obstacles remain to any own states. disrespect. They used to have a great Cabinet go-ahead for deal, a rebel off icial said yesterday. His remarks added to strain in the US- friend in the US, but not anymore,” Earlier, Turkey’s Anadolu agency Israeli relationship - characterised by Trump said in a series of tweets. “Stay reported that Ankara and Moscow personal acrimony between President strong Israel, January 20th is fast ap- had reached a ceasefire deal that Barack Obama and Netanyahu - after the proaching!” would go into eff ect at midnight, but United States cleared the way for a UN Trump had openly lobbied against alternative medicine neither capital nor the parties to the resolution last week that demanded an the UN resolution and would be ex- conflict confirmed the report. end to Israeli settlement building. pected to veto any further ones deemed Labib Nahhas, foreign relations head “Despite our best eff orts over the anti-Israel. he Cabinet has approved the re- urveda and acupuncture in the coun- the occupied Palestinian territory, in- for the powerful Ahrar al-Sham rebel years, the two-state solution is now He has vowed to move the US em- quirements and specifi cations try, Gulf Times had reported. cluding East Jerusalem, and demands group, reiterated that rebel factions in serious jeopardy,” Kerry said at the bassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and Tfor opening complementary The Qatar Council for Healthcare an immediate and complete cessation had not been presented with any State Department. “We cannot, in good has appointed as ambassador a lawyer medicine centres in the country. Practitioners later started an imple- of all settlement activities as they are off icial proposal and said there were conscience, do nothing, and say noth- who raised money for a major Jewish In this regard, the Cabinet gave its mentation plan to regulate comple- illegal under the international law, ac- still obstacles to a deal. Page 11 ing, when we see the hope of peace settlement, has cast doubt on the idea nod to a draft decision of HE the Min- mentary medicine practices in Qatar. cording to the QNA report. slipping away.” of a two-state solution and even ad- ister of Public Health defi ning the re- The decision to start regulating com- The Cabinet expressed hope that the WORLD | Timekeeping “The truth is that trends on the vocated for Israel’s annexation of the quirements and specifi cations at its plementary medicine was taken to pro- resolution would constitute a motiva- ground - violence, terrorism, incite- West Bank, a notion even further to the weekly meeting yesterday. vide a legal framework to ensure that tion and incentive for the international 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1... An extra ment, settlement expansion and the right than Netanyahu’s own stance. The draft decision identifi ed com- the benefi ts of these practices could be community to revive the peace process second to see out 2016 seemingly endless occupation - are Kerry’s speech provided some insights plementary medicine as an addition of enjoyed without unnecessary risks. on the basis of international legitimacy As if 2016 has not been long enough, destroying hopes for peace on both into an issue that he personally feels pas- some special practices - involving al- The regulatory framework stand- and the Arab peace initiative, and the the year’s dying minute will last an sides and increasingly cementing an sionate about and had hoped to resolve ternative treatment - to modern medi- ardises the complementary medicine cessation of all Israeli violations and extra second to make up for time irreversible one-state reality that most during his years as secretary of state. cine, the offi cial Qatar News Agency practice so that only licensed and qual- practices against the Palestinian peo- lost to Earth’s slowing rotation, people do not actually want.” He defended the US decision to al- (QNA) reported. ifi ed practitioners are issued a medical ple. timekeepers say. Countries that Kerry condemned Palestinian vio- low the passage of a UN resolution de- Alternative medicine treatment is licence and allowed to practice in Qa- Further, the Cabinet reaffi rmed use Co-ordinated Universal Time - lence which he said included “hun- manding an end to Israeli settlements, a set of skills and practices based on tar. Qatar’s fi rm stance in support of the several West African nations, Britain, dreds of ... attacks in the past year.” saying it was intended to preserve the experience, which is used to diagnose, After HE the Prime Minister and legitimate rights of the Palestinian Ireland and Iceland - will add the His parting words are unlikely to possibility of a two-state solution. treat or maintain health as well as pre- Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin people, primarily the right to establish leap second during the midnight change anything on the ground between vent physical and psychological ail- Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani chaired the their independent state with Jerusalem countdown to 2017 - making the ments. It is diff erent from the means meeting at Emiri Diwan yesterday, HE as its capital. year’s final minute 61 seconds Abbas believes peace is achievable of treatment used in modern medi- the Deputy Prime Minister and Minis- Meanwhile, the Cabinet took the long. For others, the timing will be cine, which include surgery, radiation, ter of State for Cabinet Aff airs Ahmed necessary measures to ratify an ‘en- determined by the time zone they Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas before talks restarted. chemotherapy, etc, QNA said. bin Abdullah bin Zaid al-Mahmoud couragement and protection of mutual live in, relative to UTC. The Paris responded to US Secretary of State Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat The Ministry of Public Health (for- said the Cabinet also approved a draft investments’ agreement between the Observatory said in a statement: John Kerry’s Middle East speech in read out a statement saying Abbas had merly known as the Supreme Council decision of HE the Minister of Public governments of Qatar and Argentina. “The sequence of dates of the Washington yesterday by saying he “reiterated his full commitment to a just of Health) had issued a notifi cation Health on the conditions and specifi - It also reviewed some topics and UTC second markers will be: 2016 was convinced peace with Israel was peace as a strategic option”.
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