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3rd Best News Website in the Middle East BUSINESS | 17 SPORT | 24 Qatar will adapt to blockade Record-breaking & grow faster than Saudi Barshim wins in and UAE in 2018 ‘lucky’ Birmingham Monday 21 August 2017 | 29 Dhul-Qa’Da 1438 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Volume 22 | Number 7260 | 2 Riyals Sheikha Al Mayassa tours Tamim Al Majd exhibition SC unveils design of new 2022 stadium The Peninsula nestled in the busy residential The Al Thumama Doha suburb of Al Thumama, he Supreme Commit- located just 6km south of Doha’s tee for Delivery and Stadium will be famous Corniche. Legacy (SC) yesterday equipped with Chairman of the Supreme revealed the design of both world-class Committee’s Technical Delivery Al Thumama Stadium, standards of disabled Office, Eng Hilal Jeham Al Tthe sixth 2022 Fifa World Cup Kuwari commented on the stadium and the first one access and the SCs announcement and said that designed by Qataris and Arabs. revolutionary cooling “This is another unique design The distinctive white bowl technology to enable that all of Qatar will be proud design, adorned with an intri- of, given its rich cultural cate pattern, is based on the year-round sporting connotations.” gahfiya, an essential component activities after the The stadium will be of traditional Arab dress that tournament. equipped with both world-class holds in place the ghutra and standards of disabled access and aghal, which together form a the SCs revolutionary cooling H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Chairperson of Qatar Museums, during symbol of dignity and fitting tribute to the first FIFA technology to enable year- the opening night tour of the Tamim Al Majd: Celebration of Unity exhibition at MIA Park. H independence. World Cup in the Middle East,” round sporting activities after E Sheikha Al Mayassa was accompanied by members of the Qatar Museums Board including Secretary-General of the Al Thawadi said. the tournament. SC have suc- H E Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Attiyah, H E Yousef Hussein Kamal and H E Dr Mohamed Abdul Supreme Committee for Legacy The innovative arena is cessfully tried some of those Raheem Kafoud, as well as Mansoor bin Ebrahim Al Mahmoud, Chief Executive Officer of and Delivery, Hassan Al Tha- being built by a Qatar-Turkey technologies in Khalifa Interna- Qatar Museums, and Special Adviser to H E Sheikha Al Mayassa. → Full report on page 2 wadi said that the design of the joint venture (JV) between tional Stadium, which had Al Thumama Stadium was AlJaber Engineering and Tur- rooms equipped for people with inspired by gahfiya, and reflects key’s largest construction autism. Also, and innovative and the harmony between the Qatari company, Tekfen, with enabling environmentally friendly cool- heritage they take pride in and works successfully completed ing technology will be installed Gulf crisis is the country’s aspiration towards in 2016. at Al Thumama Stadium. Qatar didn’t refuse the future. Work on the stadium began Hassan Al Thawadi stressed “With just over five years to in 2016, and is set to be com- Qatar’s commitment to its vision fabricated; go until Qatar opens the doors plete by 2020. that the World Cup 2022 was a Saudi Airlines request of the Middle East to the world, The stadium is one of the tournament for the region and Qataris proved this symbolic design embodies most centrally located venues for the Arab World. QNA its Qatar Haj mission in accord- everything that unites us as out of the eight being con- → Continued on page 7 steadfast: FM ance with what is established Arabs and Muslims, and is a structed for the tournament, → See also page 24 n official source from in the past in order for the The Peninsula Qatar Civil Aviation Authority to take the necessary AAuthority has described action. efuting the impression as baseless the news circulat- being created by siege ing in media outlets of the siege countries that Qatar countries that allegedly claimed R Qatar Civil Aviation has ‘special ties’ with Iran, that Qatar refused to allow Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Saudi Airlines to transport Authority has described Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Qatari pilgrims. as baseless the news Al Thani has said that rela- The source said that Qatar circulating in media tions between the two Civil Aviation Authority outlets of the siege countries were open and received a request from Saudi countries that allegedly clear based on neighbour- Airlines asking to transport claimed that Qatar hood and common Qatari pilgrims, adding that the interests. Authority replied that the air- refused to allow Saudi “Qatar has a certain level lines should coordinate with Airlines to transport of relations with Iran because and contact Qatar’s Ministry of Qatari pilgrims. we share the border. We have Awqaf and Islamic Affairs and A rendition of the Al Thumama Stadium. a joint gas field and our cir- cumstances are different from other countries,” he said in an interview with France 24. Qatar envoy slams UAE demand Siege nations’ complaint He said that Qatar’s for- eign policy was based on transparency and clarity, against NHRC rejected therefore when “we have rela- for severing Turkey defence ties tions with any entity we never QNA the National Human Rights hide them”. From the begin- Committee at the Office of the ning, the minister said, Qatar The Peninsula he International Accred- High Commissioner for Human had differences with Iran but itation Committee of the Rights as the secretariat of the “Iran is our neighbour and we atar’s Ambassador to Ankara, Salem bin TGlobal Alliance of International Accreditation must enter into dialogue with Mubarak Al Shafi (pictured), has said National Human Rights Insti- Committee, and also as a per- it to settle those differences that the demand of cutting Qatar’s tutions has rejected the manent observer to the and this was the decision defence ties with Turkey is an ‘obvious complaint submitted by the Accreditation Committee of the reached at the GCC summit in Qintervention of internal affairs’. siege countries against the Alliance. December, 2016, in “This is against all international law and National Human Rights Com- In their complaint to the Bahrain”. norms” Salem bin Mubarak Al Shafi told mittee (NHRC). Accreditation Committee, the He said Qatar’s relations Anatolia. The International Accredi- siege countries requested that with Iran were clear before and “It is strange to see the UAE, which hosts sev- tation Committee has appropriate action be taken to after the start of the crisis Qatar eral foreign bases, to call for closing the Turkish Arab world for restoring dictatorships”. In a state- underlined that, since the freeze the membership of the was not preventing any of the base in Doha and for cutting defence ties between ment issued on Saturday evening, Ambassador beginning of the Gulf crisis, the National Human Rights Com- Gulf countries to develop their Qatar and Turkey, unless the UAE and allied states Salem Al Shafi said: “The UAE and a number of National Human Rights Com- mittee (NHRC) in the list of ties with Iran. have hostile intentions or plans for a military inter- allies have paid around $40bn to consolidate the mittee (NHRC) had played its national human rights institu- “They (blockading coun- vention,” he said. military coup in Egypt alone,” in reference to the part in the protection and pro- tions, and called for a tries) accuse Qatar of having The Ambassador added: “The closure of this ouster of Mohamed Mursi, the country’s first motion of human rights in reclassification of the Commit- special ties with Iran while base and demanding that our defence relations freely elected president, in 2013. accordance with the Paris Prin- tee’s A rank and downgrade Qatar comes in the fifth place with Turkey be interrupted would be an obvi- “We say that these countries have not learnt ciples that govern the work of and review of all activities of in trade exchange with Iran ous intervention of our internal affairs, the lesson well,” he added. “Blaming Qatar, using national human rights the NHRC before and during the while out of total Gulf trade infringement of our sovereignty rights, and the bright terms such as counter-terrorism and attack- institutions. crisis to consider it conformity with Iran, 96% is done with the assumption of tutelage over us.” Qatar’s ambas- ing the moderates with a view to winning the West It is to be noted that the with its mandate in accordance UAE. sador to Turkey accused the United Arab Emirates will not help protect them from the people.” siege countries filed a joint with the Paris Principles. → Continued on page 3 (UAE) of supporting “counter-revolutions in the → Continued on page 4 complaint on August 7 against → Continued on page 6 02 HOME MONDAY 21 AUGUST 2017 Emir congratulates ‘Tamim Al Majd’ Hungarian President EMIR H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent yester- day a cable of congratulations murals on display to the President of Hungary Janos Ader on the occasion of his country’s National Day. at MIA expo Total solar eclipse coincides with Raynald C Rivera crescent moon of The Peninsula Over 40 artworks bear the same image of Emir Dhul Hijjah unique public art H H Sheikh Tamim bin exhibition opened QATAR Center for Space Sci- yesterday at the Hamad Al Thani but differ ences and Astronomy Museum of Islamic in the messages written on President Sheikh Salman bin Art (MIA) park fea- them in various languages Jabor Al Thani has said that Qatar Museums (QM) Chairperson H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, turingA over 40 Tamim Al Majd by people across all the birth of the crescent moon murals in varying shapes and nationalities expressing during the opening night tour of the “Tamim Al Majd: Celebration of Unity” exhibition at MIA will be this evening, where the sizes donated by individuals their love and support to Park, yesterday.