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Page 01 Nov 25.Indd ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Monday 25 November 2013 21 Moharram 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5894 Price: QR2 QNB signs Qatar’s Barshim agreement wins Arab with QBC Athlete Award Business | 18 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Iran seals historic Emir meets Turkish FM N-deal with West Tehran gets limited relief from sanctions in return GENEVA: Iran and six world World leaders hailed the deal powers clinched a historic deal A step towards as a triumph for diplomacy. UN yesterday curbing the Iranian Secretary General Ban Ki-moon nuclear programme in exchange stability: Qatar said the deal “could turn out to be for initial sanctions relief, sig- the beginnings of a historic agree- nalling the start of a game- DOHA: Qatar yesterday wel- ment” for the Middle East. changing rapprochement that comed the agreement reached Russia said it was a win-win would reduce the risk of a wider at Geneva talks between Iran deal, while China said the docu- Middle East war. and the P5+1 countries on ment would support stability in Aimed at easing a long fester- Iran’s nuclear programme. the Middle East. ing standoff, the interim pact A Foreign Ministry official France called the deal “an between Iran and the United described the agreement as important step in the right direc- The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with the Foreign Minister of Turkey, Dr Ahmet Davutoglu, at States, France, Germany, Britain, an important step towards tion”. Khamenei hailed the deal as Al Bahr Palace yesterday. Cooperation and ways of boosting it were discussed. China and Russia won the critical safeguarding peace and sta- an “achievement”. endorsement of Iranian clerical bility in the region. Iran’s Gulf Arab adversaries, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali “The State of Qatar calls nervous of the rehabilitation Khamenei. for making the Middle East a of their long-standing regional “While today’s announcement nuclear weapon-free zone,” he rival, were tight-lipped about is just a first step, it achieves a said and stressed that Qatar is the agreement. But Israel, Iran’s Over 23,000 great deal,” US President Barack keen on stability and security arch-enemy a US ally, denounced Crackdown on illegal Obama said in an address from in the region. the agreement as an “historic the White House. He noted that the agreement mistake”. expired items “For the first time in nearly is consistent with Qatar’s per- European Union foreign policy a decade, we have halted the manent stance that supports chief Catherine Ashton, who has restaurants, stores confiscated progress of the Iranian nuclear resolving the nuclear issue been coordinating diplomatic con- programme, and key parts of the through negotiations and tacts with Iran on behalf of the DOHA: Municipal officials have had schooling, hardly bother to DOHA: The Consumer programme will be rolled back.” peaceful means. QNA major powers, said the accord cre- unearthed illegal restaurants check if a restaurant or cafeteria Protection Department (CPD) Under the deal, Tehran will ated time and space for follow-up and provisions stores being run is licensed or if it is, its licence is confiscated more than 23,000 limit uranium enrichment to low talks on a comprehensive solution in some labour camps in the valid. And even if some bother, expired food and non-food items levels that can only be used for atomic inspectors will also have to the dispute. Industrial Area, which is home they keep silent, thinking that is from the store of a company in civilian energy purposes. additional, “unprecedented” “This is only a first step,” said to a large number of low-income none of their business. the central market. It will neutralise its stockpile access, Kerry said, including Iranian Foreign Minister and workers. According to residents, the The company faces punishment of uranium enriched to higher daily site inspections at the two chief negotiator Mohammad In crackdowns, officials discov- problem in the area is that some for tampering with expiry dates 20-percent purity — very close enrichment facilities of Fordo and Javad Zarif. “We need to start ered that in some camps people small provision stores sell tea, of the products that were offered to weapons-grade — within six Natanz. moving in the direction of restor- had also opened outlets vending fresh juices and fast food in a for sale. The products include months, US Secretary of State In exchange, the Islamic repub- ing confidence, a direction which fresh fish and meat. corner on the sly. 200 cans of edible oil, 16,000 cans John Kerry said in Geneva after lic will receive some $7bn (5.2bn we have managed to move against “They were using rooms in Then, there are people who of ghee and 7,000 bottles of hair clinching the deal. euros) in sanctions relief and in the past.” labour camps as restaurants and set up an entire eating place ille- shampoo, the CPD said in a state- Iran will not add to its stock- the powers promised to impose Zarif said that Iran would move cafeterias and some rooms were gally. Many licensed eateries don’t ment yesterday. pile of low-enriched uranium, nor no new embargo measures for quickly to start implementing the discovered where fresh fish and bother to get or renew health cer- CPD inspectors acted on a tip- install more centrifuges or com- six months if Tehran sticks to agreement and it was ready to meat were being sold,” a health tification of their workers. off from the Preventive Security mission the Arak heavy-water the accord. But the vast raft of begin talks on a final accord. monitoring official from the Things have, though, improved Department at the Ministry of reactor, which could produce international sanctions remain AGENCIES Industrial Area, Ali Mohamed considerably after the munici- Interior about a food company in plutonium fissile material. UN untouched. See also pages 7, 8, 9 & 20 Sheikhan, told Al Sharq. pality, under whose jurisdiction the central market manipulating Meanwhile, in a fresh cam- the Industrial Area falls, began the expiry dates of products. paign, the food monitoring unit mounting raids and conducting The seized items have been of Doha Municipality closed strict monitoring. destroyed with the help of Waste New islet down another 49 outlets in the Some three weeks ago, the food Treatment Centre at the Ministry Industrial Area, many of them monitoring unit closed down sev- of Environment. The case has operating illegally. eral eateries and groceries for been referred to police because it There is a near-total lack of gross violations of rules. involves a major violation of the consumer rights awareness in A total of 380 outlets were consumer protection law, CPD said. the Industrial Area. This, coupled screened and 160 of them were Meanwhile, CPD said it had with the workers’ low purchasing warned to improve their situa- taken action against 51 outlets power, is one of the reasons why tion, and 53 were shuttered. At for violations last month. illegal eateries and vending thrive least 63 of the outlets that were These include cheating custom- in the area. issued warning have improved ers by providing false information Workers don’t know where to their situation to comply with about products, not specifying complain if they notice an irregu- the law. products and services and selling larity. Also, the thinking among According to Mohamed Ahmed expired products. them invariably is not to get Al Sayed, head of the food moni- THE PENINSULA involved with legal complications. toring unit, a large number of A Nepali worker, who has been people in the area patronise these Afghan assembly living in the area for more than outlets, including eateries. two years, said he frequented two “If an outlet is on the wrong backs US pact; to three eateries but had never side of the law and is violating thought of making a complaint consumer rights, for instance, Karzai sets terms even if he noticed irregularities. and even if people know, they “I think hygiene is a major issue don’t know where to complain,” KABUL: An Afghan grand in the restaurants here and some- Al Sayed told this newspaper. assembly yesterday endorsed times food is stale,” Brahmabhatt “Language is also a barrier in the Bilateral Security Agreement White smoke rising from a newly created islet from a volcano near the Ogasawara island chain in Japanese said, giving only his last name. case of workers.” (BSA) allowing some US troops waters, 1,000km south of Tokyo. Video footage shows plumes of smoke and ash billowing from the 200-metre Enquiries reveal that work- THE PENINSULA to stay on after 2014, although Continued on page 4 island, and the coast guard said it was warning vessels to use caution in the area. ers, including those who have President Hamid Karzai set conditions for signing the deal. The “loya jirga” gathering of about 2,500 chieftains, tribal elders and politicians overwhelm- ing backed the pact setting the terms for any US military presence Egypt approves new law to restrict protests beyond 2014, and urged Karzai to sign it by the end of this year. CAIRO: Egypt’s interim pres- spokesman Ehab Badawi said. Beblawi, of the military-installed need to include details about the bird-shot if other means fail. US Secretary of State John ident Adly Mansour approved Egypt’s military justified its government, defended the meas- organisers of the demonstration, Rights groups had strongly Kerry said the assembly’s vote a controversial law yesterday July 3 overthrow of Islamist ure, saying: “It is not a law that its purpose and what slogans will criticised earlier drafts of the law.
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