ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 13 Sport | 21 Doha teacher’s ouster Qatar stocks edged Al Shaqab Racing’s Al makes waves in India. higher in February Mourtazez left all six The Indian embassy on blue chips. The rivals in the shade to win has denied forcing the benchmark index was up H H The Emir’s Sword, teacher’s resignation. 4.59pc at 12,445 points. with a commanding run. FRIDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2015 • 8 Jumada I 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6354 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir meets Kerry in Washington, DC Deputy Emir unveils Hamad Port Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met US Secretary of State John Kerry at his residence in Washington, DC yesterday. Talks dealt with regional and international developments and issues of common interest. The Emir’s delegation was present. See also page 2 Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani with Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, Minister of Transport H E Jassim bin Seif Ahmed Al Sulaiti and other officials at the event. DOHA: The New Doha Port of vehicles and construction the first phase of the project, being built in Mesaieed has equipment. which will help increase its Emir: Qatar deserves to been named Hamad Port. The 4km-long, 700-metre capacity, will be fully operational It will serve as the main wide and 17-metre deep facility in late 2016. He said immersion gateway for Qatar’s trade with can accommodate the biggest of the port’s basin in water is one the world and will be partially vessels in the world. It will be of the most important phases of opened before the year-end. equipped with 12 cranes from the the project. host 2022 World Cup Deputy Emir H H Sheikh roof to the quay, rubber gantry Abdulla Al Khanji, CEO, Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani cranes for containers and mobile Qatar Ports Management, said yesterday renamed the port and cranes, forklifts, tugboats, guid- once fully operational, Hamad ‘Event not for Qatar alone but for entire Arab world’ immersed its basin in water at ance boats and docking boats. Port’s capacity will be six mil- the project site in Umm Al Houl Speaking on the occa- lion containers a year. It will be DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh and shown that Qatar deserves to standard we have for all specific in Mesaieed. sion, Minister of Transport connected with GCC countries Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani host the World Cup. World Cup construction sites, The partial opening of the port and Chairman of Hamad Port through road, sea and rail net- said yesterday that investiga- To a question on the Arabic then a big step will be contributed includes loading and unload- Steering Committee H E Jassim works. Continued on page 3 tions had proved that Qatar language, he said he supports to working conditions and that ing stations to allow import bin Seif Ahmed Al Sulaiti said THE PENINSULA deserves to host the FIFA encouragement to the language will be part, again, of the power World Cup in 2022. and added that it must be taught of the World Cup,” Valcke said. He said preparations to hold and learnt not only in the region He recalled that FIFA the coveted world soccer event but also overseas. President Sepp Blatter, during were progressing in full swing. The Emir described Qatar’s his July 2014 meeting with the Qatar to spend $225bn on Kuwait marks Addressing students and fac- relations with Saudi Arabia as Emir, had deliberated on ongo- ulty members of Georgetown strong and historic when asked ing labour rights reforms. The national days University in Washington, the about his recent visit to the king- football’s governing body expects development projects Emir said he was happy and dom. He also talked about Qatar’s a solution to the problem in the KUWAIT: Kuwait cele- proud that Qatar had won the bid efforts to diversify the national near future but cautioned changes DOHA: Thanks to investments is likely to be 46.4 percent by brated 54th National Day on to host the World Cup. economy and said that it would cannot happen overnight, he said. in FIFA 2022-linked infra- year-end, Al Attiyah said. Wednesday and 24th anniver- He said the win was not for benefit citizens and the coming “We are not expecting a deci- structure projects, Qatar’s non- Real GDP growth this year is sary of the liberation from Iraqi Qatar alone but for the entire generations, QNA reports. sion tomorrow morning but this hydrocarbons sector has been expected to be 7. 5 percent, he told occupation yesterday. Arab world and the region. On Wednesday, FIFA problem will be solved before 2022 growing rapidly as part of a eco- the Middle East Conference 2015 Thousands of citizens and The Emir was invited by the Secretary-General Jerome Valcke World Cup. We want to ensure nomic diversification strategy, ‘Impact of Oil Prices Falling on the expatriates gathered on Arabian chancellor to visit the university. said he had visited stadiums, that this is taken on the top of the according to Administrative Middle East and North Africa’ in Gulf Road to celebrate the days, He spoke on issues, including including Al Wakra Stadium agenda and will be solved before Control and Transparency London yesterday, reports QNA. with children and families lining Qatar’s fight against terrorism and workers’ housing, and added the World Cup when all attention Authority Chairman H E He said Qatar hoped to spend up on street sides, spraying water and spending on education and that progress has been made in will be on Qatar.” Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah. $225bn over the next five to seven and waving flags. development as well as Arab the standards of workers’ rights Valcke said the 2022 World Cup The share of the non-oil sec- years on projects, including the Cruising along Gulf Road is a Spring. in all World Cup-related projects. will be a compact event as it will tor in the GDP by the year-end ongoing new port, rail and sports popular activity during the cel- Answering questions, the Emir “I have to say that if the stand- save effort of transferring partici- is expected to cross 50 percent- infrastructure projects, ebrations of both days, with car said investigations into alleged ard for all construction sites pant teams between cities. mark and the energy sector’s con- Continued on page 3 and motorcycle groups holding wrongdoings had proved nothing in Qatar reaches the level of THE PENINSULA tribution to the national economy THE PENINSULA rallies. The Q8 Old Cars Team paraded from Green Island to Shuwaikh Beach. Kuwait won independence from Britain on June 19, 1961. The late Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah Al Alert over souq mouse Saudi envoy resumes duties from Aden Salem Al Sabah, the 11th ruler, signed the independence docu- DOHA: A video of a mouse among consumers, with some DOHA: Saudi Ambassador to Qatar closed their embassies and legitimate president. By moving ment with Sir George Middleton, snuggled up in a sack of dried finding it disturbing as the mouse Yemen, Mohammed Said Al evacuated staff mid-February, cit- their embassies from Sana’a, GCC the British commissioner in the peas had gone viral within hours was seen sitting on food for Jaber, will resume duties from ing deteriorating security. states intended to send a message Arabian Gulf. after a social media user posted humans. Mice have been known the southern city of Aden where Meanwhile, an official told of support to Hadi and the Yemeni it in Instagram yesterday. to cause food poisoning through Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Asharq Al Awsat on the condition people who oppose the Houthi Kuwaiti-born IS The 15-second video taken in faecal contamination. Mansour Hadi holds court after of anonymity that the remaining coup, said the official, who accom- Souq Waqif by Instagram user The Ministry of Municipality he fled Sana’a where he was put GCC ambassadors will resume panied GCC Secretary-General killer was Briton n3mon generated hundreds of and Urban Planning has inten- under house arrest by Houthi duties from Aden once embassy Dr Abdullatif Al Zayani on his views and comments from social sified crackdown on restaurants rebels, reports Al Arabiya. offices are secured. The six-mem- visit to Aden on Wednesday. WASHINGTON: The Islamic media users, some of whom ques- and retail food outlets in recent Saudi Arabia joined Western ber GCC condemned the Houthi UN Secretary-General Ban State (IS) executioner seen in tioned the safety of food and other years and the souq — popular states earlier this month in takeover and the group’s dissolu- Ki-moon earlier held talks with videos beheading Western hos- items in the souq thousands visit among Qataris and expatriates, evacuating its embassy following tion of parliament on February Houthis and urged them to lift the tages was identified by media daily to buy. “They have rats. is in the spotlight, especially a power grab by the Houthis, who 6, which it described as a “coup.” house arrest on Prime Minister outlets yesterday as Mohammed It’s disgusting,” commented an when Ramadan and Eid holidays control Sana’a. The Qatari ambas- Hadi fled Sana’a on Saturday, Khaled Bahah and Foreign Emwazi, a computer program- Instagram user who saw the video. approach. Continued on page 3 sador resumed work in Aden on retracting his resignation and Minister Abdullah Al Saidi.