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Doha Forum Urges World to Help End Conflicts BUSINESS | Page 1 QATAR | Page 28 Al Gharrafa sewage INDEX network DOW JONES QE NYMEX QATAR 2-9, 28 COMMENT 26, 27 REGION 10 BUSINESS 1-9, 14-16 HIA-Huawei deal for completed 20,973.95 10,118.13 47.86 ARAB WORLD 11 CLASSIFIED 10-13 +77.34 +56.63 +1.02 INTERNATIONAL 12-25 SPORTS 1 – 8 airport’s digital shift +0.37% +0.56% +2.13% Latest Figures published in QATAR since 1978 TUESDAY Vol. XXXVIII No. 10455 May 16, 2017 Sha’baan 20, 1438 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Emir, Armenian president hold talks Doha Forum In brief urges world QATAR | Offi cial Emir in phone talks to help end with Tillerson HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani held yesterday evening a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. During the call, HH the confl icts Emir and the US Secretary of State discussed relations between the QNA for the international community to two friendly countries and means Doha shoulder its legal and moral respon- of enhancing them, and exchanged sibility and to work seriously towards views on a number of regional and stopping wars and confl icts that cause international issues. he two-day Doha Forum which the crisis by all political and peaceful was held under the theme means, fi nding just and lasting solu- QATAR | Visit T“Development, Stability and tions to the issues of peoples, helping Refugee Crisis” concluded yesterday refugees wherever they are, alleviating Burkina Faso president evening. their suff ering and providing hous- arrives in Doha today The forum saw a broad international ing, food, education and healthcare to President Roch Marc Christian participation of decision-makers, in- them, in addition to working on refugee Kabore of Burkina Faso will arrive HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and Armenian President held an off icial round of talks at the Emiri Diwan tellectuals and representatives of in- resettlement in their countries and real in Doha today for an off icial visit yesterday. During the talks, they reviewed relations between the two countries and ways to enhance and promote in all fields, ternational and regional organisations participation in the reconstruction and to the State of Qatar. HH the Emir as well as the most important developments on the regional and international arenas. Page 2 and institutions. stability of each country that its people Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani In a speech at the closing session, was forced to asylum and its homeland will hold talks with President Kabore HE the Minister of State for Foreign was destroyed because of wars and tomorrow at the Emiri Diwan on the Aff airs Sultan bin Saad al-Muraikhi confl icts. bilateral relations between the two said that the international and regional He pointed out that the success of countries and means of boosting participation and the speeches deliv- development depends on the stability and developing them. ered by the heads of state and govern- of societies. Businesses in Qatar ‘not ment, politicians, opinion leaders and Stability is the cornerstone and the QATAR | Circular intellectuals as well as businessmen, framework that protect the develop- parliamentarians and representatives ment process, he said, pointing out at Working hours of govt of regional and international organi- the same time that terrorism and ex- bodies in Ramadan impacted by hack attack’ sations and international community tremism can not be eliminated without HE the Deputy Prime Minister have provided an ideal opportunity for achieving sustainable development. and Minister of State for Cabinet atar businesses have not been A particularly dangerous element to be careful of unexpected e-mails, constructive dialogue as well as ex- HE the Minister of State for Foreign Aff airs Ahmed bin Abdullah bin impacted by the spread of the about this new malware virus is that it especially if they contain links or at- change of ideas and ideas to achieve the Aff airs affi rmed that all the forum’s rec- Zaid al-Mahmoud has issued a Qransomware virus so far in spreads via a network worm, enabling tachments, since e-mails are one of desired goals. ommendations and ideas will help in circular on working hours during view of the global cyberattack, Oore- it to move from one infected computer the main infection methods for ran- The selection of the theme of the fi nding ways and means to address the the holy month of Ramadan for the doo said and noted the company’s to all others on the same network that somware and malware. 17th Doha Forum “Development, Sta- issues of the humanitarian community, ministries, government bodies and experts are working with the Qatari has not received the security patch. Ooredoo also provides an MSS bility and Refugee Crisis” has many adding that everyone has the responsi- public institutions. According to the authorities and international infor- Ooredoo Qatar chief operating of- Patch Management service that au- important implications as these issues bility to make use of these visions and circular, the off icial working hours mation security leaders to ensure that fi cer Yousuf Abdulla al-Kubaisi said: tomatically updates computers with are among the most important chal- solutions to achieve world development during the holy month for civil organisations’ data remains safe. “Global attacks such as this weekend’s the latest Microsoft patches; a Cloud lenges facing the world today, he said. and stability and to contribute to build- employees will be five hours a day, The ongoing global cyberattack, ransomware outbreak reinforce the im- E-mail solution that automatically He stressed that holding the Doha ing world peace, reducing refugee fl ows from 9am to 2pm. which has so far impacted more than portance of a robust IT security strat- monitors e-mail; Cloud Web/ZScaler Forum on a regular basis since its fi rst and alleviating their suff ering. 200,000 victims in some 150 coun- egy, and demonstrate that companies solution to protect web browsing and a session in 2000 until now refl ects the The Prime Minister of Finland Juha EAST ASIA | Missile launch tries, emphasises the importance of need to consider every aspect within full suite of security monitoring serv- vision of the wise leadership of the Sipila addressed the closing session robust security processes and ad- that strategy, including employee be- ices in Ooredoo’s Managed Security State of Qatar and contributes to the stressing the need for the world to re- UN chief condemns vanced threat protection, according to haviour and the use of devices on their Services (MSS) portfolio. consolidation of the concepts of mean- spond to the refugees crisis and its North Korean action experts at Ooredoo. network, if they are to stay safe.” By subscribing to MSS, compa- ingful dialogue, constructive thinking consequent humanitarian needs. UN Secretary-General Antonio The “WannaCry” ransomware virus “Ooredoo has developed the net- nies can access the latest and most and constant striving to fi nd solutions He pointed out that Europe did not Guterres yesterday condemned that struck on Friday was designed to work, the portfolio of services and the advanced security solutions without to the problems and challenges fac- deal with this issue in an interactive North Korea over its latest take over fi les on infected computers. experience necessary to deliver real needing to invest in expensive hard- ing the countries of the region and the manner and that it should change the ballistic missile launch and Once installed, it demands payment information security, even during in- ware or bring in the highly qualifi ed world at large. way they of handling it. called on Pyongyang to return to from users in return for releasing the ternational incidents such as this. We staff necessary to monitor and manage He pointed out that the forum’s dis- He also called for thoroughly study- denuclearisation. “This action is locked fi les – without any guarantee are working with all our partners and the security solutions. cussions that took place over two days ing the causes of migration and asylum in violation of Security Council that the recovery password will ever customers to ensure that they receive Ooredoo’s customers who are con- proved that the problems of the world and for looking into their causes before resolutions and a threat to peace be sent. High profi le organisations the full benefi t of our legacy as a lead- cerned about the impact of this new today do not know any borders, and thinking about managing the crisis and and security in the region,” Guterres around the world have been impacted, ing IT security partner,” he added. malware can arrange a meeting with that the challenges have become global dealing with its fi gures. said in a statement issued by his including hospitals and healthcare or- As part of its security outreach ac- their account manager or call the and they do not pose a threat to those For his part Vice President of Brook- spokesman. Page 15 ganisations in the United Kingdom. tivity, Ooredoo is advising customers business team on 800 8000. who face them only or to countries they ings Center in the US Martin Indyk ex- suff er from, but the whole world is suf- tended thanks to Qatar for successfully EUROPE | Politics fering and has suff ered from them. organising forum for the past 17 years. Oil rises aft er Saudi, Russia back longer supply cut At the forefront of these problems In his speech at the closing session, Macron wins backing and the serious challenges facing the Indyk expressed dissatisfaction with from key ally Merkel Oil jumped more than 2% to its highest in extension specifi ed in the deal.
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