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MONDAY JANUARY 6, 2020 JUMADA AL-AWWAL 11, 1441 VOL.13 NO. 4835 QR 2 Fajr: 4:59 am Dhuhr: 11:40 am Asr: 2:39 pm Maghrib: 5:00 pm Isha: 6:30 pm MAIN BRANCH LULU HYPER SANAYYA ALKHOR World 8 Business 10 Doha D-Ring Road Street-17 M & J Building Trump threat to target China team plans to paRTLY CLOUDY MATAR QADEEM MANSOURA ABU HAMOUR BIN OMRAN HIGH : 22°C Near Ahli Bank Al Meera Petrol Station Al Meera Iranian cultural sites travel to Washington to LOW : 17°C alzamanexchange www.alzamanexchange.com 44441448 sparks backlash sign trade deal AMIR OF KUWAIT MEETS ENERGY MINISTER HIA sees record 38.78 mn passengers in 2019 TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK Amir, Iraq president DOHA review recent HAMAD International Air- developments port (HIA) has served a re- cord 38.78 million passengers THE Amir HH Sheikh Tamim in 2019. The number shows a bin Hamad al Thani held a tel- year-on-year growth of 12.44 ephone conversation with Iraq percent compared to passenger President Dr Barham Salih. numbers in 2018, the HIA said During the phone call, the two in a statement. sides reviewed the develop- Engr Badr Mohammed ments in Iraq, particularly the al Meer, Chief Operating Of- recent events, and the means ficer at IAH , stated: “2019 has for calming and sparing Iraq been a spectacular year for and the region more tension HIA, having broken our re- and escalation. (QNA) The Amir of Kuwait HH Sheikh Sabah al Ahmad al Jabar al Sabah met with Minister of State for Energy cord for the most number of Affairs, President and CEO of Qatar Petroleum HE Saad bin Sherida al Kaabi in Kuwait on Sunday. Talks passengers ever served since during the meeting covered various aspects of the brotherly relations between Kuwait and Qatar and commencing our operations. FM, Pompeo review cooperation in the energy field. The meeting was attended by Kuwait Minister of Oil and Minister of It was also an exciting year Electricity & Water HE Dr Khaled Ali al Fadhel, who is also the Chairman of KPC, and the delegation ac- for the airport as the gateway Iraq developments companying the minister. The meeting came on the occasion of the signing of a long-term gas Sale and to some of the world’s biggest Purchase Agreement between Qatar Petroleum and Kuwait Petroleum Corporation. (QNA) sporting events including the DEPUTY Prime Minister and Min- IAAF World Athletics Cham- ister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh pionships Doha 2019 and the Mohammed bin Abdulrahman FIFA Club World Cup Qatar al Thani on Sunday held tel- 2019 which were successfully ephone conversation with United hosted by Qatar.” States Secretary of State Mike Eight new passenger des- Pompeo. During the phone call, QP inks long-term deal to tinations were added to HIA’s destinations were also added and Air India Express. HIA they reviewed the recent regional global network in 2019 which to HIA’s network — Istanbul, also welcomed two new air- developments, especially the were Davao (Philippines), Ra- New York and Almaty. line partners — Air India and latest developments in Iraq, and bat( Morocco), Izmir (Turkey), Fifteen airlines operating Tarco Aviation. the ways to solve controversial supply Kuwait with LNG Gaborone (Botswana), Lang- at HIA increased their weekly HIA handled a total of issues in the region. The FM also kawi (Malaysia), Mogadishu flight frequencies including 232,917 aircraft movements held phone calls with Minister (Somalia), Malta and Lisbon Kuwait Airways, Salam Air, in 2019, which is 5.57 percent of Foreign Affairs of Turkey QNA Port will commence in 2022 “This agreement extends (Portugal). Three new cargo Philippine Airlines, Oman Air more than the previous year. Mevlut Cavusoglu and Minister KUWAIT to support meeting Kuwait’s Qatar’s long standing LNG of Europe and Foreign Affairs of growing energy needs and supply relationship with Ku- the French Republic Jean-Yves QATAR Petroleum (QP) and demand, particularly in the wait well into the 2030’s and Le Drian on Sunday. During the Kuwait Petroleum Corpora- power generation sector. highlights our commitment conversations, they reviewed the tion (KPC) on Sudnay entered to meeting Kuwait’s LNG re- recent developments in Iraq, and into a long-term Sale and Pur- This agreement quirements. We are confident Kahramaa rolls out smart ways to solve the contentious chase Agreement for the sup- extends Qatar’s that the exceptional reliability issues. (QNA) ply of up to 3 million tonnes of our LNG supplies will pro- per annum of Liquefied Natu- long standing vide KPC with the required registration service ral Gas (LNG) to Kuwait. LNG supply relationship flexibility and supply of securi- Qatar condemns The agreement was signed with Kuwait well into the ty to fuel Kuwait’s impressive MERIAM JELLITI ties owners in Kahramaa automatically once by Minister of State for En- 2030’s and highlights our growth,” Kaabi concluded. DOHA the lease contract or the title deed is authen- Tripoli attack ergy Affairs and President commitment to meeting On his part, Fadhel said, ticated without the need to submit requests or and CEO of Qatar Petroleum “Kuwait is embarking on an QATAR General Electricity and Water Corpora- documents. QATAR has expressed its strong HE Saad Sherida al Kaabi and Kuwait’s LNG needs. ambitious path of econom- tion (Kahramaa), in collaboration with the For usual customers, once the lease con- condemnation and denunciation Minister of Oil and the Min- — HE Saad Sherida al Kaabi ic growth, which requires Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) tract is documented by MME, data will auto- of the airstrike that targeted a ister of Electricity and Water, cleaner energy sources such and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), has launched matically be transferred to Kahramaa’s system, military college in the Libyan the Chairman of the Board of as natural gas that will con- the Smart Registration Service that will allow creating a change of residency application and capital, Tripoli, leaving scores of Kuwait Petroleum Corpora- “We are pleased and tribute to reducing emissions customers to authenticate rental notifying the customer with the regis- students killed and injured. In a tion Dr Khaled A. al Fadhel in proud to join hands with Ku- and improving local air qual- contracts without any application tration success. statement on Sunday, the Min- Kuwait City. wait Petroleum Corporation, ity. Whilst KPC is working to- request for residency change, As for property owners, a docu- istry of Foreign Affairs said the Under the 15-year agree- and we look forward to pro- wards increasing local natural and automatically update and mented title deed is also required for airstrike may amount to a war ment, LNG deliveries to Ku- viding reliable LNG supplies gas production, there remains register new data concerning the data to be transferred in Kah- crime and crimes against human- wait’s new world-class LNG to our brothers in Kuwait for a pressing need to secure im- property titles. ramaa’s system, creating a conveyance ity. It called on the international receiving terminal at Al-Zour decades to come,” Kaabi said. ports of natural gas supplies.” The new service is con- in property application and notifying community to take immediate sidered a quantum leap in customer service. both previous and new owners with the suc- action to protect the civilians and Kahramaa has linked its data and integrated cess of transfer process. open an urgent investigation into its system with MME and MoJ to facilitate the the incident. (QNA) Iraq MPs back plan to expel US troops (PG 7) process of registering customers and proper- Continued on page 2 ASHGHAL OPENS SECOND Mall of Qatar expansion to include FLYOVER AT UMM LEKHBA residential units and school: CEO SATYENDRA PATHAK “We are also adding a giving more reasons for people DOHA school for 1,400 students. A to come here for living, for en- major theme park will also be tertainment, for education, for EXPANSION of Mall of Qatar developed. The mall will not staying,” he said. will include development of be just a mall anymore. It will “It’s targeted towards giv- residential units, a school and have a mixed-use environ- ing more reasons for people theme park, the mall’s new ment where people can find in the wider region to come to CEO has said. everything,” Hosn said. Qatar,” Hosn said. “We have already begun “The expansion work will “We are located near a sta- the expansion of the mall. We be completed in three phases. dium with a seating capacity of broke ground on the develop- The school will be the first to 40,000 that will host the 2022 ment of 1,000 residential units be completed in 2021. The FIFA World Cup. We will find recently. The residential units residential units will be com- Khaled Sam Hosn, Mall of lots of people coming to Qa- are going to vary from studio pleted by the end of 2021 or at Qatar CEO tar even before the start of apartments to 4-bed room the beginning of 2022. These the World Cup. Through this The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has opened the second 537-metre flyover bridge at Umm Le- apartments. All the apart- projects will be part of the first expansion work will be com- expansion, we want to be ‘the khba (Landmark) Interchange, providing free flow of traffic from Al Markhiya towards Doha as part of ments will have the five-star and second phases,” he said. pleted in 2022 and new facili- destination’ for fans and tour- Sabah Al Ahmad Corridor project.