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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 12 SPORT | 21 Negative rates LCSC to move have helped global ahead with 100-day economy: Lagarde development plan SATURDAY 19 MARCH 2016 • 10 Jumada II 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6740 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Emir sends cable of condolences Qatar helps free Djibouti hostages to Saudi King DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim Djibouti President bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of condolences to Custodian of the Ismail Omar Guelleh Two Holly Mosques King Salman in a telephone bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia on the death of Prince Bandar bin call expressed his Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. gratitude to the Emir The Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani also H H Sheikh Tamim bin sent a similar cable of condolences Hamad Al Thani for to King Salman bin Abdulaziz. Qatar’s role in freeing Djiboutian captives in Eritrea. Some schools seek permission to raise fees QNA The Peninsula DOHA: President of Djibouti Ismail DOHA: Some private and inter- Omar Guelleh has thanked Emir H H national schools have asked Released Djibouti captives with Qatar’s Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and President Ismail Omar Guelleh in Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani permission from the Ministry of the capital Djibouti yesterday. for Qatar’s role in freeing Djiboutian Education and Higher Education captives in Eritrea. to raise their tuition fee from the President Guelleh expressed his has earned. The success was also hope over the past years in getting out One of the hostages Mahmoud be a bright sign and a source of appre- next academic year (2016-17). The gratitude to the Emir during his talks the latest in a long line of successful of captivity. Hudeid said the moment they learned ciation and respect from the people requests of some of the schools with him over telephone yesterday. He Qatari mediation efforts, Al Zayani The detainees likened the moment about their release was as though they of Djibouti, and we will never forget have already been rejected as praised the mediation of Qatar and added. of their release to coming back to life were born again. “I didn’t realise what the backing of our Qatari brothers and they do not meet the required basic wished Emir and people of Qatar fur- Meanwhile, the group of released and said because of Qatar’s mediation was going on until I heard that Qatar giving us our freedom back.” conditions. ther progress and stability. Djiboutian hostages expressed their and efforts we are returning safely was behind our release.” Captive Ali Abdullah expressed However, the requests of the The Emir said the mediation deep thanks and sincere gratitude to to our families. One of the captives He thanked Emir, government and his gratitude to everyone that con- other schools that are eligible efforts reflected Qatar’s commitment the Emir for Qatar’s efforts to secure said: “We are delighted not only for people for such “a noble stance and tributed to their release. to apply are being studied. The to resolving regional and international their release after spending eight being released but we felt that we the initiative that led to the release “All appreciation and love to our private schools’ office of the edu- conflicts peacefully. years in captivity. have brothers in Qatar who stood from captivity and return to our brothers in Qatar. We wouldn’t be able cation ministry is looking at various GCC Secretary-General Dr Abdul- Speaking at Hamad International by us and that was the reason in life, country and families,” adding to embrace freedom again if it was not aspects like how many times in the latif Al Zayani praised the efforts of Airport before leaving to their coun- our return to our homes after all that words can’t describe the role of for the sincere efforts of the State of past three years they have applied the Emir in releasing a number of cap- try, the captives said Qatar, under the these long years.” Qatar in setting them free. Another Qatar to secure our release.” for permission to increase their tui- tives from Djibouti that were held in leadership of the Emir, has always “I would like to thank Qatari peo- detainee Othman Mohamed voiced The released captives expressed tion fee and their expenditures and Eritrea. been a supporter of humanitarian ple and mainly the Emir H H Sheikh his thanks and gratitude to Qatar thanks for being hosted in Qatar before profits, if any. The performance of Al Zayani expressed his appreci- issues and works wholeheartedly Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, whose and the Qatari people under the their return to their country and for the the school will also be considered ation to the Emir’s efforts and said in mediation efforts, which finally efforts were the reason “we embraced leadership of the Emir for the ini- hospitality they received in Doha, voic- in deciding whether the school that the success of Qatari mediation resulted in their release and their freedom again and are now returning tiative that resulted in their release. ing the gratitude of all the Djiboutian should be allowed to increase its efforts reflect the respect the country return to their families after losing to our families and country.” “Qatar’s efforts to release us will people of the State of Qatar. fee, reports Al Sharq. New tactics to smuggle in EU and Turkey strike deal to send back migrants banned items AFP Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in returned!” Sobotka wrote on Twitter. human rights record. Turkey has EU-Turkey agreement approved by a bid to end an unprecedented crisis More than 1.2 million migrants demanded an acceleration of its long- EU leaders, in principle, as it is now up By Sidi Mohamed dividing the continent. “The Turkey have come to Europe since Janu- stalled bid for EU membership, the for final talks with the Turkish prime The Peninsula deal was approved,” Sipila wrote on ary 2015 in the continent’s biggest doubling of refugee aid to six billion minister,” a senior EU official told AFP. BRUSSELS: EU leaders approved a Twitter. migration crisis since World War II, euros ($6.8bn) and visa-free travel in But in a sign of the tensions that controversial deal with Turkey to curb Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav and around 4,000 have drowned return for taking back all new irreg- remain between Ankara and Brus- the huge flow of asylum seekers to Sobotka confirmed that the expul- while trying to cross the Aegean Sea ular migrants coming to Greece, the sels, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan DOHA: Smugglers trying to push Europe, with all migrants arriving in sion of migrants arriving on the Greek between Turkey and Greece. main entry point to Europe. blasted several EU states for tak- contraband into the country are Greece from Sunday to be sent back. islands would begin tomorrow. But the deal comes at a heavy cost Davutoglu is now set to formally ing only a “handful of refugees” in using new and innovative as well Finland’s Prime Minister Juha Sip- “Deal with Turkey approved. All for Europe, with many members of sign off on the accord at a final meet- contrast to the nearly three million as old and conventional ways to ila said the 28 EU leaders approved illegal migrants who reach Greece the bloc expressing misgivings about ing with EU leaders. Turkey has admitted, most of them hoodwink ever-agile customs offi- the deal negotiated with Turkish from Turkey as of March 20 will be the legality of the deal and Turkey’s “Tusk’s proposal for the fleeing the Syrian war. cials at entry points. The most oft-used and easy- to-detect method of hiding a prohibited item in a hollowed-out book shown mostly in Hollywood Syrians protest Oil hits 2016 high and films, continues to be the modus operandi of many a smuggler. A senior customs official head- heads toward $43 ing the department’s pavilion at the 32nd GCC Traffic Week which comes to an end today, hinted that some new methods of smug- Agencies Organisation of Petroleum Exporting gling forbidden items have been Countries, Opec, floated the idea of unearthed by his department and a production freeze, boosting brent they include the use of ground- from about $27 and US crude from nut shells (peeled and re-sealed) LONDON: Oil rose above $42 a around $26. to arguably push drugs into the barrel yesterday, hitting its highest Oil prices have surged by more country. this year and extending a rally into than 50 percent from 12-year lows On display at the pavilion of a fourth week on expectations of a reached in December, bolstered the General Authority of Customs production freeze by major export- as the Organization of the Petro- at the 32nd GCC Traffic Week are ers. leum Exporting Countries (Opec) not only the above-said tools used Brent crude’s front-month con- floated the idea of a production by the smugglers to carry out their tract LCOc1 was up at $42.44 a freeze, boosting Brent from about sinister operations but also the for- barrel while US crude CLc1 gained $27 and US crude from around $26. bidden goods they tried to push 84 cents to $41.04 a barrel after ris- Many analysts think there is still into the country. The list of exhib- ing as high as $41.13. steam in the rally. its also includes counterfeit goods The benchmark had jumped by “We are leaving the period of low that people tried to bring into the 4.5 per cent to close the previous ses- demand and starting to move toward country and some of the items that Men carrying a Free Syrian Army ﬂag attending an anti-government protest to mark the ﬁfth anniversary sion at $40.20.

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