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Qatar Banks 'Well-Placed to Weather Crisis' BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 1 Aussie challenger ready for DOW JONES QE NYMEX INDEX Opec gets another supply QATAR 2, 3, 16 BUSINESS 1-7, 10-12 war with INTERNATIONAL 4-13 CLASSIFIED 8-10 21,409.55 9,030.44 43.38 headache from surging +14.79 +252.71 +0.37 COMMENT 14, 15 SPORTS 1–8 Pacquiao +0.07% +2.88% +0.86% Brazilian crude exports Latest Figures published in QATAR since 1978 TUESDAY Vol. XXXVIII No. 10497 June 27, 2017 Shawwal 3, 1438 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Fireworks light up Doha sky In brief Demands on QATAR | Offi cial Qatar very Emir and Boutefl ika exchange Eid greetings His Highness the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani exchanged greetings with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of the People’s Democratic Republic provocative, of Algeria, on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, during a telephone conversation the Emir held yesterday evening. AMERICA | Judiciary Trump hails SC says Germany ruling on travel ban Donald Trump hailed yesterday’s Demands challenge Qatar’s Supreme Court ruling which sovereignty, says German FM Crisis will not last long, says Kuwait partially reinstates the US It will be diff icult for Doha to president’s travel ban targeting support demands: Gabriel Kuwait’s Deputy Prime Minister Khaled said that the efforts exerted citizens from six mainly Muslim Iran urges Europe to use its and Minister of Defence Sheikh by the Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah countries as a victory for national influence to defuse tensions Mohamed Khaled al-Hamad al- al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah will security. “Today’s unanimous Zarif calls for a new regional Sabah has expressed his confidence result in reconciliation among Supreme Court decision is a clear dialogue forum for the Gulf that the Gulf dispute will end soon the Gulf states, stressing that victory for our national security,” countries and it will not last long, Al Jazeera the international community has Trump said in a White House Arabic reported. During a visit to expressed appreciation for Kuwait’s statement. “It allows the travel Reuters the Ali Al Salem airbase in Kuwait, mediation. suspension for the six terror- Berlin prone countries and the refugee suspension to become largely reduce tensions resulting from the big- In his speech in the German capital, eff ective. As president, I cannot list of 13 demands submitted by gest diplomatic crisis in the region in Zarif said the countries who blamed allow people into our country who four Arab states to Qatar as a years. He said some of the demands be- Iran or Qatar for terrorism were trying want to do us harm.” Page 5 A condition to lift their blockade ing made of Qatar were negotiable, but to avoid taking responsibility for their on the Gulf country is “very provoca- others clearly challenged its sovereignty. own failures in addressing the demands AMERICA | Diplomacy tive” because some items challenge The Arab states are demanding, of their own people. A spectacular fireworks display at Katara - the Cultural Village in celebration of Eid Doha’s sovereignty, German Foreign among other things, that Doha close Al “One day it’s Iran, today it’s Qatar,” US president hosts al-Fitr 2017. Katara is among the various venues hosting Eid activities, with a large Minister Sigmar Gabriel said yesterday. Jazeera television, curb ties with Iran, he said. “It’s an attempt to evade re- Indian prime minister number of people turning up to enjoy the festivities through the day. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emir- shut a Turkish base and also pay repa- sponsibility, escape accountability for US President Donald Trump PICTURE: Jayan Orma ates, Bahrain and Egypt imposed a boy- rations. this very fundamental ... failure of the yesterday welcomed Indian Prime cott on Qatar three weeks ago, accusing it Gabriel said it would be tough for state system to address, to respond to Minister Narendra Modi to the of backing militants - then issued an ul- Qatar to accept all 13 items on what he the demands of its populus.” White House for their first face- timatum, including demands that it shut described as “a very provocative list”. Zarif argued for a new regional dia- to-face meeting, seeking to forge down a Turkish military base in Doha. He said eff orts were under way to logue forum for the Gulf countries a chemistry that can add new Action against Qatari Qatar denies the allegations against defi ne which conditions Qatar could and called for an end to the arma- fizz to a flourishing relationship it and says the demands are aimed at accept, and which it viewed as prob- ments spiral in the region, which he between the world’s two largest curbing its sovereignty. A government lematic. said influenced some Western coun- democracies. Despite diff erences spokesman last week said Doha was re- Gabriel is due to meet Iranian For- tries’ relations with states in the re- over issues such as immigration students illegal: NHRC viewing the list of demands, but did not eign Minister Mohamed Javad Zarif in gion. and climate change, Modi is view them as reasonable or actionable. Berlin today. “What is needed in our region is a re- expected to assure Trump that the he National Human Rights them certifi cates of graduation, closing Gabriel told an event hosted by the Qatar says it is being punished for gional dialogue forum,” he added. United States has nothing to fear Committee (NHRC) said that their educational accounts as well as European Council on Foreign Rela- straying from its neighbours’ backing Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has from India’s growing economic Tit has recorded several serious terminating their registration arbitrar- tions in Berlin that Germany remained for authoritarian hereditary and mili- voiced support for Qatar in its dispute clout. After they began their violations committed against Qatari ily without giving reasons. in close touch with all sides to try to tary rules. with Saudi Arabia and its allies. afternoon talks in the Oval Off ice students by educational institutions in The NHRC said it has presented a likely to centre on issues such as Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain, which series of complaints to the UN Educa- trade and war in Afghanistan, the have cut diplomatic ties and imposed tional, Scientifi c and Cultural Organi- two leaders were expected to give an illegal blockade on Qatar. sation (Unesco). No US arms to GCC states until dispute is resolved a joint statement to reporters. The Committee said in a statement The Committee called on the univer- Page 9 that the arbitrary measures taken by sities and educational institutions in the GCC chose Trump’s visit to do more to combat terrorism, but re- comply with as the condition for lifting these countries, especially UAE, violate three countries to put aside political dif- Riyadh to devolve into confl ict, cent disputes among the GCC coun- the three-week-long blockade. Kuwait ARAB WORLD | Confl ict all human rights norms, principles and ferences and take into account the rights says infl uential Republican Senator tries only serve to hurt eff orts to fi ght is helping mediate the dispute. Mosul battle to end in charters resulting in serious violations of Qatari students and not to put obsta- ISIS (Islamic State) and counter Iran,” Under US law, foreign US arms sales of a range of civil, economic, social and cles on their right to education. Reuters Corker wrote in a letter to Secretary of are submitted to a small group of law- days, says Iraqi general cultural rights, including the right to It said said that it would take up the Washington State Rex Tillerson. makers, including the chairman of The battle to wrest full control of education, the Qatar News Agency re- issue with all relevant international or- Corker and Tillerson have a close the Foreign Relations Committee, for the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic ported yesterday. ganisations and accredited institutions. relationship. They speak frequently on clearance during an informal review State will be over in a few days, The NHRC said the unjust siege has The NHRC statement expressed S Senator Bob Corker, chairman foreign policy issues. process before they can go ahead. the Iraqi military said yesterday, aff ected the right of the Qatari students the confi dence that all governmen- of the Senate Foreign Relations Tillerson said on Sunday that Qatar In his letter, Corker said he was pleased as elite counter-terrorism units to education and has deprived them tal bodies and institutions in Qatar, UCommittee, yesterday said he and Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and with President Donald Trump’s trip to fought militants among the of the exercise and enjoyment of this led by the Ministry of Education and would withhold consent for American the United Arab Emirates, which im- Saudi Arabia, which included a summit narrow alleyways of the historic right, as stipulated in international hu- Higher Education and Qatar Univer- arms sales to members of the Gulf Co- posed the boycott on their neighbour of the GCC, which groups Saudi Arabia, Old City. An attempted fight-back man rights instruments. sity, will quickly fi nd alternative solu- operation Council (GCC) until there is a should sit down together to try to reach Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman. by militants failed on Sunday The statement noted that these vio- tions for these students and exempt path forward to resolving the dispute in a resolution. He urged them to “lower “Unfortunately, the GCC did not night and Islamic State’s grip on lations include not allowing Qatari them from certain conditions and the region, where four Arab states have rhetoric” to ease tensions.
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